Effects of narrative journalism on interest and comprehension: an overview
Effects of narrative journalism on interest and comprehension: an overview

Summary/Abstract: Ideally, journalism makes current information public and facilitates democracy therewith. For accomplishing this task, comprehension as well as interest in the sense of engagement and in the sense of selecting a message are the most important effects of a journalistic message. As these effects are attributed to narratives, 15 experiments from 13 publications, which investigate the differences between traditional and narrative news writing style, were analysed. While the studies reported positive effects of narrative news on narrative engagement, news selection was not part of the investigation. The results for comprehension were intermediate except for a favourable effect of narratives on information recognition. Implications for further research are discussed.

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