Emotions and Virtues in Feature Writing

Dr Jennifer Martin, Lecturer in communication at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, has been teaching journalism for the past decade. She has more than 25 years’ experience working as a journalist and is a past winner of the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Prize.

• Part I. Theory.- 1. Why We Need a Map.- 2. Navigating Narrative Journalism: Blurred Boundaries andUncertain Beginnings.- 3. The Virtue Paradigm: The Feature and Democracy.- 4. The Virtue Paradigm: A New Framework.- 5. The Virtue Map: The Walkley Project.- 6. The Virtue Map: Emotions and Virtues.- Part II. Case Studies.- 7. Children: A Case Study.- 8. Disadvantaged or Socially Marginalized: A Case Study.- 9. Citizen, Nation, World: A Case Study.- 10. Conclusion.

“Martin uses the Virtue Map to investigate … . The map becomes a compass guiding the researcher. … Emotions and Virtues in Feature Writing has a solid taxonomy that would be useful to students and researchers for referencing the scholarship on the ‘emotional turn’ in journalism and useful media theories in this context. In introducing her Virtue Mapping for narrative long-form features, Martin also gives us a tool to examine what alchemy is at work in creating winning journalism.” (Helen Vatsikopoulos, Australian Journalism Review, Vol. 43 (2), 2021)