Immersion journalism

. Like Gonzo, immersionism details an individual's experiences from a deeply personal perspective. An individual will choose a situation, and immerse themselves in the events and people involved. Unlike Gonzo, however, it is less focused on the writer's life, and more about the writer's specific experiences. Proponents of immersion journalism claim that this research strategy allows authors to describe the internal experience of external events and break away from the limiting pseudo-objectivity of traditional journalism. Critics of immersionism (who sometimes call it "stunt journalism") argue that by using such methods, writers are just "playing tourist" in the lives (and often tragedies) of other people.

Book-length examples of immersion journalism include John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me; Ted Conover's Rolling Nowhere, Coyotes and ; Barbara Ehrenreich's (2001) and (2005).

In 2005 teenager Farris Hassan went to Iraq to pursue an article influenced by the immersionist style.

Vice magazine has also produced an entire issue looking at immersionism.