It is the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Prof. Sims who credits Joseph Mitchell, John McNulty and other short piece writers at Harold Ross' designedly succoring The New Yorker magazine with evolving an early 20th-century reformer news writer's practice into a separate literary genre [REF].
In his seminal work Literary Journalism in the 20th Century, Norman Sims traces the roots of literary journalism to journalist reformers efforts to make their news reports so poignant as to compel others to undertake corrective social actions [REF].