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“Reports of new events are stories – no more, but no less”. This assertion by Gaye Tuchman (1976, 93) opened a window onto a central issue in journalism studies, i.e., the conceptualization of events in the news as stories. Since then, journalism research and education have further developed the concept of narrative journalism, which has resulted in a plethora of approaches to journalism as storytelling. In our special issue, we examine this “mantra to think story” (Cotter & Perrin 2016) as relevant but falling short and partly dysfunctional (Flath 2014). We theorize and empirically investigate why news is much more – and at the same time less – than stories and why this matters for both journalism research and practice. This special issue offers space for considering issues such as:

Beyond the myth of journalistic storytelling: Why a narrative approach to journalism falls short (Introduction)