Traditionally seen as strange bedfellows, literature and journalism seem to occupy opposing realms. While the first is considered to be anchored in creativity and authorship, the latter’s dominant standards—mostly informed by Western professional ideology—tend to rest on the cornerstone value of ‘objectivity’ (Wien 2006; Schudson 2001). Literary works seek to be timeless, whereas journalism has a strict relation to current events (see Shapiro 2014). However, scholars in both the field of literary and journalism studies have brought nuance to this dichotomy, showing that the relationship between both disciplines is built on centuries of mutual influences, exchanges, and porous limits between practices and genres (e.g., Postema and Deuze 2020). Notable cases of writers working as journalists (famous examples include Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway and Arnon Grünberg) and journalists publishing widely recognized literary works (such as Svetlana Aleksijevitch, Oriana Fallaci or Gay Talese), as well as literary movements like New Journalism and Gonzo Journalism, have illustrated how both worlds incessantly intersect in the modern, media-centred era, leading to cross-fertilization through common practices relying on storytelling.
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