There are many occasions in which journalism has allied itself with literature in the production of feature story reporting. Less celebrated, however, are times that, in order to accomplish that goal, the language of newspapers and magazines went beyond simply borrowing elements from fiction writing. The place occupied by the work of Janet Malcolm (1934-2021) can be seen as a space in-between the two languages that unites the rhythm from the so-called narrative journalism text with commentary, analysis and reflection. The investigation featured in her pieces focus not only on the resolution of the narrative problems, but mainly on the constant inspection of journalistic language, the reporter s approach to gathering information, as well as the contradictions in writing nonfiction texts. These aspects can approximate Malcolm s work with the essay genre, a bond that shows itself in passages where the author stops the narrative progression to display her own ideas on the story. In order to scrutinize the ways in which Malcolm introduces and works with this type of analysis, as well as the effect that they have in her pieces, this thesis connects Malcolm and essayism to propose a kind of feature story writing that is defined by its display of the ever-changing thought process of the writer in the creation of the text. In order to develop this approximation, not only the most famous theories of the essay are taken into consideration, but also the writer s will to address the themes of truth, sincerity and metalanguage in her pieces of journalism.