Immersion journalism

Bissinger's Friday Night Lights; John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me; Ted Conover's Rolling Nowhere, Coyotes and Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing; Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001), Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream (2005), A.J.

Jacobs' The Year of Living Biblically (2007) and Matthew Thompson's Running with the Blood God (2013) and My Colombian Death (2008).

Examples of immersionist film include the documentary Super Size Me and Heavy Metal in Baghdad and Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead.

Examples of immersionist programming include the various offerings of media company Vice and segments of US public broadcasting series like Frontline, Planet Money, and This American Life.

The New York Times writer Jesse McKinley spent a month working alongside actors to "expose the daily torment that is life way-way off Broadway.

"[6] Anne Hull of the St. Petersburg Times worked six months following the lives of a Tampa police officer and the teen who attacked her.

[4] However, many news sources value quick stories at a rapid pace to increase profits, according to the Columbia Journalism Review.