Between the 1960s and the 1990s journalists in U.S. newspapers created, constructed, and advanced emotionality as a new occupational norm in American print journalism, challenging some aspects of the dominant objectivity norm while simultaneously affirming its overall relevance. This historical study delineates how the emotionality norm emerged as a constitutive element of narrative journalism during this time period. Drawing from archival research, in-depth interviews, and textual analysis of trade publications, this study analyzes how narrative journalists developed moral ideals, practices, and justifications for advancing narrative journalism as an acceptable and desirable mode of emotional storytelling. As the emotionality norm affected journalistic roles, expanded the repertoire of journalistic forms, and transformed the emotive posture of newspapers, it contributed in nuanced and deliberate ways to the interpretive turn in U.S. journalism.

在1960年代至1990年代之间，美国报纸的新闻工作者创造，建构并提升了情感意识，将其作为美国印刷新闻业的一种新的职业规范，在质疑主流客观性规范的某些方面的同时，也肯定了其整体意义。这项历史研究描述了情感规范是如何在这段时间里成为叙事新闻的构成要素。从档案研究，深入访谈和对贸易出版物的文本分析中得出的结论，本研究分析了叙事新闻记者如何发展道德理想，实践和理由，以推动叙事新闻业成为一种可接受且理想的情感叙事模式。由于情感规范影响了新闻工作者的角色，扩大了新闻形式的范围，