Inverted pyramid. Unbiased information gathering. Objectivity in reporting. Professionalism. Routines that would regulate reporting, translating information to readers, regardless of geography. Journalism spent most of the 20th century routinizing information, attempting to shed its seedy past of “yellow journalism” in the face of the challenges of new technologies, first radio, then television. Then came the tumultuous 1950s and 1960s. Suddenly, the same waves of change that were sweeping America's cultural and political landscape were also reshaping journalism. Journalism pioneers, including Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer and Joan Didion, are the well-known figures who shaped the new journalism. Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr., known as Tom Wolfe, was born in 1931 in Richmond, Virginia. He was educated at Washington, Lee and Yale universities. Wolfe started as a reporter for the Springfield Massachusetts Union, which began a ten-year newspaper career. As a correspondent for the Washington Post's Latin American newspaper, he won the Washington Newspaper Guild's Foreign News Award for his coverage of Cuba. He is known as an American journalist and novelist. Wolfe gained his fame through his studies of contemporary American culture in a unique style known as New Journalism. While working for the Herald-Tribune, he completed his first book. It was written for New York and Esquire and published in 1965 as The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. Wolfe's book became a bestseller and his literary technique became known as New Journalism. New journalism is an artistic, creative and dramatic way of reporting and presenting the subject. Wolfe used colorful language and u...... middle of paper ......rence Center. EBSCO. Internet. February 9, 2011. Kaul, Arthur J. “Hunter S. Thompson.” University of Pennsylvania | Department of English. Internet. February 9, 2011. Kinzey, James Reynolds, Kelly Fuller and Richard Tuerk. “Joane Didion.” Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition (2010): 1-10. Literary reference center. EBSCO. Internet. February 9, 2011. Long, Robert Emmet and Julie M. Elliott. “Truman Capote.” Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition (2010): 1-8. Literary reference center. EBSCO. Internet. February 5, 2011. “Norman Mailer.” Famous People - Famous people from history, list and biography of famous people. Internet. February 9, 2011. .Petersen, Jennifer B. “Norman Mailer.” Norman Mailer (9781429802871) (2005): 1-2. Literary reference center. EBSCO. Internet. February 9. 2011.