Journalism with greater context
Explanatory journalism orexplanatory reporting is a form ofreporting that attempts to present ongoing news stories in a more accessible manner by providing greater context than would be presented in traditional news sources.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] The term is often associated with the explanatory news websiteVox ,[ 1] [ 4] [ 5] but explanatory reporting (previously explanatory journalism) has also been aPulitzer Prize category since 1985.[ 6] [ 7] Other examples includeThe Upshot byThe New York Times ,Bloomberg Quicktake ,The Conversation , andFiveThirtyEight .[ 8]
Relation to analytic journalism [ edit ] Journalism professorMichael Schudson says explanatory journalism andanalytic journalism are the same, because both attempt to "explain a complicated event or process in a comprehensible narrative" and require "intelligence and a kind of pedagogical flair, linking the capacity to understand a complex situation with a knack for transmitting that understanding to a broad public."[ 9] Schudson says explanatory journalists "aid democracy."
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