You can do it! You can tell journalistic stories in the first person appearing with a visible and active self in the story. In fact, in some situations this can elevate your journalism and engage readers, listeners and viewers. But when and why? Which stories will be better with an active self and how do you go about it?
These questions are answered in the anthology What am I doing here? Through analyses and examples, a range of journalists and scholars explore when, why and how a visible 'I' can improve a journalistic story across genres, media types and platforms.
The book
presents different types of first-person narrators and the dilemmas that can
arise in, amongst others:
- feature and reportage
- investigative reporting
- the profile story
- ghostwriting
- essays and memoirs
- audio stories
- digital stories
- ethnographic journalism
- the personal photograph
What am I doing here? is a hands-on textbook designed to inspire journalists, editors and other communicators to a well-considered and qualified use of 'I'.
