Understanding Latin America: Spanish Narrative Journalists Writing in the Region
摘要
This chapter focuses on the experiences of seven Spanish narrative journalists who discovered and developed a long-form, nonfiction genre during their professional assignments in Latin America. By using in-depth, semi-structured interviews, this research confirms the importance of the professional environment in assimilating the reporting, writing, and editing tools that characterize narrative journalism, after the journalist arrived in the region. They have reflected on the motivation acquired in the form of workshops, professional gatherings, and readings, mostly linked to the networking activity of the Foundation for New Ibero-American Journalism. Moreover, they emphasize the possibility of finding publishing opportunities for narrative journalism at a time when they were not available in Spain. The narrative journalists interviewed agreed that there has been increasing interest and openness to this type of journalism in this country since the end of the last decade.