V.R. "experiences," as they're often called, can be fictional or journalistic, narrative or open-ended.
In the boom years, the journalistic narrative and the marketing plan nearly wrote themselves, but mainstream reporters, many schooled by Wired's prescient coverage, eventually began competing for new-economy stories.
As sad as it was hilarious, "In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz" set a new standard for journalistic narrative about Africa, and it richly deserved the PEN prize for non-fiction.Such glittering beginnings are all too often followed by less successful efforts.
Leading the country through shock and grief as much as through a journalistic narrative, the anchor, as recalibrated by Cronkite, became, in the words of Harrison E. Salisbury of The Times, "a father figure to a country that seems to be looking for one".
The company Blumberg and his business partner, Matt Leiber, are attempting to build is a consortium of journalistic narrative-driven podcasts.
That landscape is summoned into existence through journalistic narratives, first-person testimonies, jazzlike riffs of monologues, catalogs of statistics, and ensemble set pieces that include a vivacious treatise on the naming and consumption of rotgut wine and a harrowing re-enactment of a subway bombing.
Ever since he and Carl Bernstein shot to fame with their Watergate reporting, he's been trooping in and out of the offices of senior officials, writing down (and presumably taping) what they say, and using his notes as the basis for journalistic narratives that are, by turns, revelatory, informative, incomplete, infuriating, and downright misleading.
As the filmmaker Alex Gibney pointed out in this excellent blog for The Huffington Post, saying "it's just a movie" doesn't hold water when the movie in question is being sold as a quasi-journalistic narrative about very recent history.
With scholarly zeal, journalistic skepticism and narrative flair, Wood, a veritable archaeologist of myth, examines key iconic figures, places and texts that have come to represent the idea and ideals of the English.
I saw all the narrative and journalistic tricks at work.
The Independent newspaper writes that her sensitive rendering combined "rigorous journalistic research with the narrative skills of a novelist".
