Way New Journalism

When the web first appeared, some journalists got very excited about its potential. They thought it would offer all sorts of new possibilities to writers and individual journalists in particular. If you want to see how excited people got, read The Birth of Way New Journalism by Joshua Quittner.

This was written 12 years ago for Hot Wired, one of the first online magazines. It was launched by Wired Magazine, which, at the time, wanted to see itself as the Rolling Stone of the digital revolution, or something. Hence all the stuff about New Journalism.

We'll talk about this in class. How do you think the piece holds up? What did Quittner get right about the way journalism has developed online?