In journalism, the future is narrative

Abstract

Nobody can resist a good story. Alexis Serrano defends narrative journalism in a hyper-communicated world where immediacy has forced the media to lose the details and depth. Serrano invites the new generation of journalists and readers to practice patience, to sit down with a coffee in hand to write or read stories that matter and without them the reality would be indistinct. For the pessimists, narrative journalism is in danger of extinction. However, this reflection proposes that, perhaps, it is the spaces of diffusion that will disappear or change, but history will reach the avid reader in any way.