Talking of Medium, as we were, Matt Locke had a great idea on how Medium could bring a new but familiar business model to the journalism web: There is another, intriguing possibility – building a business model around publishing episodic series…
long form content
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How long is "long form"? Longer than you think…
Some interesting figures on the length of popular long articles saved into read later app Pocket: In the Top 500 most-saved articles from the first half of 2015, we found that the average article length is 3,190 words, which…
Snowfalls eventually become slush
Bobbie Johnson on the future of journalism’s shiny new obsession Snowfall (and its ilk): Yet almost every example of snowfalling that I’ve seen in action puts reading second to the razzle-dazzle. Can you even remember what happens in…
Matter: is its long-form science journalism worth reading?
How is Kickstarted long-form science journalism startup Medium performing? Pretty well, so far…
Longform, listed
Interesting list of long-form journalism projects, compiled by Rachel McAthy at journalism.co.uk…
Narratively: another long-form, slow journalism Kickstarter
Another long-form journalism Kickstarter: > Narratively slows down the news cycle. Each week, we’ll explore a different theme about New York and publish a series of connected stories — just one a day — told in the most appropriate medium for each…
What happened to web Readability?
This looks interesting, although it’ll take a lot to drag me away from Instapaper: It says something about how bad we’ve been in designing websites for long form content that there are so many people working hard to…