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Where did Tom Wolfe work before becoming a major New Journalism writer?
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Before becoming a prominent figure in the New Journalism movement, Tom Wolfe worked as a newspaperman for several publications. He began his career in 1956 at the Springfield Union in Massachusetts and The Washington Post. He later worked for the New York Herald Tribune, where he was influenced by the creative and exciting journalistic style of writers such as Jimmy Breslin.21