On not going too fast with slow journalism

Abstract

International audienceThe phrase "slow journalism" is (slowly) entering the dictionary of journalism scholars. Le Masurier's contribution in this journal in 2015 was a stimulating invitation to understand how "slowness" could summarise many current changes in journalistic practices, and to remind also that "Journalism is a plural noun." This article firstly questions the polysemy of "slow journalism." Slowness may wrap many layers of meaning. Slow means far from pack reporting, investigative, and more selective in its targets. But slow could as well suggest: narrative, fair (with its sources and readers), participative, community oriented, and finally, giving priority to untold stories. How can researchers deal with such a richness of meanings? The suggestion here would be double. Slow journalism should be considered as a Weberian ideal-type, questioning, not mirroring, the reality of journalism. A "soft" mapping could invite rethinking the space of slow journalisms in three (overlapping) subgroups: explanatory, narrative, and mobilised. But claiming the need for "soft" mapping also means paying attention to fuzziness in journalistic practices

Slow Religion: Literary Journalism as a Tool for Interreligious Dialogue

“…In 2001, Communication et langages published two articles that identified the characteristics of cyber journalism, by Cotte (2001), Jeanne-Perrier (2001), and Masip et al (2010), which coincided with those written by Micó (2006). Specifically, the author (Micó 2006) detailed the characteristics of the style of digital journalism as well as its properties. For Díaz Noci and Salaverría (2003), digital text is deeper rather than long, but affirm that depth should not influence comprehension.…”

“…In fact, one of the main characteristics of digital narrative journalism is the non-fulfilment of digital journalism's rules of style and writing (Sabaté et al 2018b;Albalad 2018). According to Micó (2006), digital writing should have: updated data, universal information, simultaneity, interactivity, multimedia, hypertext, and versatility.…”

“…It should be noted, before analysing this aspect, that Micó (2006) also detailed the style conditions of digital journalism: accuracy, clarity, conciseness, density, precision, simplicity, naturalness, originality, brevity, variety, appeal, colour, sonority, detail, and propriety. Narrative journalism is accurate, dense, precise, and original; it has colour, sound, detail, and propriety.…”

Is the new "new" digital journalism a type of activism? An analysis of "Jot Down", "Gatopardo" and "The New Yorker"

“…Belt and South (2016), Drok and Hermans (2016) and Le Masurier (2015) expand on the slow journalism concept. Neveu (2016) studies the business models used and stresses that they contravene the rules of capitalism. Sharlet (2014) and Palau (2017) discuss its application in topics such as religion and migration, and highlight the empathy that it can create.…”

Intiimiä journalismia? Diginatiivit mediat ja journalismin mahdollinen tulevaisuus

“…Harrington 1997). Journalismin tutkimuksessa "intiimiydellä" on viitattu muun muassa tunnustukselliseen, toimittajan tai yleisön henkilökohtaista elämää käsittelevään journalismiin ja tähän liittyvään yksityisen ja julkisen raja-aidan hälventymiseen (Harrington 1997;Coward 2010), kaunokirjallisia tyylikeinoja hyödyntävään journalismiin (Zdvoc 2007), selittävään, narratiiviseen ja yleisöä mobilisoivaan hitaaseen journalismiin (Neveu 2016), feature-journalismin subjektiivisiin, henkilökohtaisiin ja emotionaalisiin painotuksiin (Steensen 2009), sekä siihen, että internetjournalismiin sopivat hyvin "intiimin keskustelun" piirteet (Barnes 2014). Beckett ja Deuze (2016) nostavat puolestaan esiin sen, että suhteemme mobiiliteknologian välittämään mediaan on muodostumassa yhä intiimimmäksi, ja että tämä korostaa sitouttamisen (engagement) ja affektien merkitystä journalismissa.…”