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Journalism with greater context
Explanatory journalism or explanatory reporting is a form of
reporting that attempts to present ongoing news stories in a more accessible manner by providing greater context than would be presented in traditional news sources.
[1]
[2]
[3] The term is often associated with the explanatory news website
Vox ,
[1]
[4]
[5] but explanatory reporting (previously explanatory journalism) has also been a
Pulitzer Prize
category since 1985.
[6]
[7] Other examples include
The Upshot by
The New York Times ,
Bloomberg Quicktake ,
The Conversation , and
FiveThirtyEight .
[8]
Relation to analytic journalism
Journalism professor
Michael Schudson says explanatory journalism and
analytic journalism are the same, because both attempt to "explain a complicated event or process in a comprehensible narrative" and require "intelligence and a kind of pedagogical flair, linking the capacity to understand a complex situation with a knack for transmitting that understanding to a broad public."
[9] Schudson says explanatory journalists "aid democracy."
See also
References
^
a
b Mann, Thomas E. (29 February 2016).
"Explanatory journalism: A tool in the war against polarization and dysfunction" . Brookings Institution .
Archived from the original on 12 November 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2020 .
^ Zhang, Qifan (28 February 2016).
"Explaining the news builds audience for it" . News Literacy 2016 . NYU Arthur L. Carter Institute. Retrieved 11 July 2020 .
^ McDermott, John (17 March 2014).
"Explaining what's behind the sudden allure of explanatory journalism" . Digiday .
Archived from the original on 24 May 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2020 .
^ Bercovici, Jeff (12 May 2014).
"Why Do So Many Journalists Hate Vox?" . Forbes . Retrieved 11 July 2020 .
^ Jaffe, Harry (30 May 2014).
"How Explanatory Journalism Wants to Spell It All Out for You" . Washingtonian . Retrieved 11 July 2020 .
^
"Explanatory Reporting" . The Pulitzer Prizes . Columbia University. Retrieved 11 July 2020 .
^
Sterling, Christopher H. , ed. (2009). "Appendix A. The Pulitzer Prizes".
Encyclopedia of Journalism . Vol. 6. SAGE Publications. p. 1877.
^ Wihbey, John (December 12, 2014).
"Journalism-school reform in the context of wider media trends" .
Journalist's Resource . Retrieved October 11, 2021 .
^ Schudson, Michael. (2008).
Why democracies need an unlovable press . Cambridge, UK: Polity.
ISBN
978-0-7456-4452-3 .
OCLC
228224817 .
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