ABSTRACT
In the 2010s, many media organisations began a period of experimentation with 360-degree video and virtual reality. The potential of these immersive technologies for journalistic storytelling was explored and the first-person experience of news stories was placed as a differentiating factor compared to other forms of conventional journalism. Despite the possibilities that these immersive formats could offer, newsrooms succumbed to the tech hype and neglected the requirements of both spatial narrative and immersive storytelling. With the first wave of immersive experiments in newsrooms over, it is necessary to rethink immersive journalism. Thus, in this chapter VR and 360-degree video journalism is discussed taking into consideration three approaches: narrative, emotion, and attention.
