New perspectives on Spanish-language narrative journalism: from the big bang of the present Boom to the emerging editorial models

Abstract

This article purports to demonstrate that print and digital publications offering highquality narrative journalism in Spanish are gaining an increasingly wider readership. Furthermore, readers of magazines such as Orsai and Jot Down are willing to pay for longform journalism that meets their aesthetic standards. What theorists such as Boynton and editors such as Kilman have asserted has now been confirmed: the key is creativity. This paper offers a chronological overview of the genre that helps explain why is there is so much talk about a boom in Latin- American narrative journalism today and provides an in-depth analysis of how the combination of conventional and groundbreaking styles of journalism has spelled out success for two of these publications.