Definirea jurnalismului literar – o misiune dificilă
The challenge of defining narrative journalism throughout history

Summary/Abstract: Over the course of more than a century of debates on this subject, researchers have put forward various definitions resulting in a rich array of concepts associated with this form of journalism. However, none of them generated a consistent vision regarding which of these concepts truly encapsulates the essence of the genre and distinguished it from others. Furthermore, there has been and continues to be a lack of consensus favoring a comprehensive and definitive definition of the genre in question. Literary journalism is more of a writing style that "you know it when you see it". The only certainty at this juncture is that the genre is evolving and is an active field of studying characterized by a wide diversity of voices that either support or contest it . This perspective is echoed by researcher John C. Hartshock, who goes further to demonstrate, employing principles from physics, that literary journalism constitutes "a moving epistemological object" lacking clear boundaries and resistant to traditional classification schemes. The aim of this paper is to compile the various terms that have been assigned to this type of journalism within literature.

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