Journalism has so much more to offer than what we already know and last Friday, our class had a guest speaker that introduce one type of journalism that we haven’t learn before, that is Narrative Journalism.
The guest speaker is from George Washington University, Prof Janet Steele. She is the director of Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication. She often visits SEA countries and we were amazed by her ability to speak in Bahasa Indonesia!
Narrative Journalism is such an interesting kind of journalism that we never learn before. Unlike traditional news stories, this kind of journalism uses story telling techniques to convey the news to the audience.
There are 4 elements of narrative journalism:
Scene by scene construction
Usage of Dialogues
Multiples points of view (POV)
Usage of details
Prof Janet Steel gave a very interesting and informative speech that day. She also gave advices and taught us how to make the story interesting. Not to forget, she also mentioned about the most important aspect in news writing, that is 5W 1H and the inverted pyramid. We were unaware before about this kind of journalism and the technique or elements of narrative journalism can differentiates it from any other journalism style.
By the end of the session, she also gave examples of her choice of narrative journalism and she also gave her email so that we, the students can approach her personally for any further questions. It was such a very good talk and we gained a lot of interesting informations!
