the differences between journalistic writing and literary writing???

Answer 1

Journalism is documenting someone else's story.
Literary writing is done from the motive of "What does writing this story mean to me?".
Entertainment writing comes from asking "What will this story mean to my audience?"

Answer 2

Journalism is very straight-forward, with prescribed formatting, generically short paragraphs, and a hard focus on the facts.

Literary writing embellishes details, can have a paragraph go on for over a page, and (with the revolutionary writers, at least) tends to defy pre-conceived standards.

Like the others said-- it can cross over. Many journalists write in their spare time (Stephan King was a journalist first), or vice-versa.

Answer 3

Literary and journalistic writing often cross genres - In Cold Blood is a fine example. Many authors use events from the news as background material for their novels. I did it for one of mine. It makes for a more interesting novel, I think. Pax - C

Answer 4

Missy gives a strict definition but as Pax says the genres can definitely cross.

Tom Wolfe is a good great example of a journalistic writer. You should check out some of his work. My favorite is “The Right Stuff.”

Answer 5

Journalistic writing deals with who, what, when, where, and how. Literary writing deals with why.