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What Does Long-Form Journalism Mean?
- Poynter, Friday, March 2, 2012 1:39 PM
In light of a Kickstarter project that has raised a ton of money -- $87,297 so far -- to “publish a single piece of top-tier long-form journalism about big issues in technology and science," Mallary Jean Tenore looks for a precise defintion of "long-form journalism."
"Do we define longform by the quality of the writing?" she asks "By the amount of time it took to write? By the research it entailed? Or do we define it by length?" Good questions all, which she attempts to answer in this analysis.
