It all really depends on the style — not all long newspaper writing is done well, so it can be hard to read. Ideally, I think newspapers should be more open to using literary techniques in long articles, where appropriate, but it’s something that’s slow to shift.

Thanks for the definitions! I read In Cold Blood in high school and read it again before all those Capote movies came out a couple of years ago.

Lee Gutkind, one of the fathers of creative nonfiction said, “Ultimately, the primary goal of the creative nonfiction writer is to communicate information, just like a reporter, but to shape it in a way that reads like fiction.”

Honestly, it’s a new, emerging, forming sort of genre, so lots of people are still trying to figure out how to define it. I hope some of that helped though!