The term "gonzo" was first used in connection with Hunter S. Thompson by The Boston Globe magazine editor Bill Cardoso in 1970. He described Thompson's article "The … See more

Thompson based his style on William Faulkner's notion that "fiction is often the best fact". While the things that Thompson wrote about are basically true, he used satirical devices to drive his points … See more

Thompson felt that objectivity in journalism was a myth. Gonzo journalism has now become a bona fide style of writing that is similar to the New Journalism of the 1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton See more

In the early days of YouTube and digital journalism in the early 2000s, outlets such as Vice Media began to create videos in the style of gonzo journalism. Journalist Shane Smith, the founder of Vice, published videos and articles reporting on his visits to extreme … See more

• Citizen journalism
• Creative nonfiction
• Embedded journalism
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1. ^ Bowe 2012, p. 92.
2. ^ Andrews, Robert (January 1993). The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations. Columbia University Press. p. 486. ISBN 978-0-231-07194-9.
3. ^ Hirst 2004, p. 5. See more

• Bowe, Brian J. (Spring 2012). "A Brain Full of Contraband: The Islamic Gonzo Writing of Michael Muhammad Knight" (PDF). Literary Journalism Studies. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-01-08.
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