Tag: journalism
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Eric Michael Garcia on What It Means to Be #ActuallyAutistic
“There’s no right or wrong way to be autistic.”
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Leah Sottile on Rethinking Your Journalism Mission
“Oftentimes I look at media and it feels like watching a youth soccer game.”
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How Have You Devalued Professional Writing Today?
This week’s discussion about paying writers has led some to argue that publishers, by asking for free or cheap work, and writers, by accepting little to no wages, are devaluing the work of professional writers. What else is devaluing the work of professional writing on the web? 1. By having this debate, for free, on Twitter.com,…
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What’s a Better Metric for the ‘Health’ of Longform?
Dean Starkman, Mathew Ingram and Gangrey are all continuing the conversation about whether there is a “Longform Meltdown” at the major newspapers. Since I don’t think the data shows anything as dramatic as what Starkman and CJR’s headline suggests—and putting aside the question of whether “longform” means narrative or investigative or both—I thought I’d ask a new question: Is…
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Here Is What Happens When You Leave Lindsay Lohan Out of Your ‘Longform Meltdown’ Story
Dean Starkman’s piece feels oddly timed, especially when you think about the number of outstanding stories being shared in the Longreads community every day and the popularity of long-form content in Pocket. 1. Starkman is examining just four newspapers (The New York Times, Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times), leaving out…
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Serials: So Hot Right Now
Still lost in the ongoing discussion about long-form storytelling being “back” is one (of many!) important questions we should ask: What should long-form storytelling look like when it is native to the web? For Longreads, the vast majority of stories shared within our community were first created for (and funded by) print publications—then, later, they’re…