New Platforms for Long-Form Journalism
The Kindle Store, Instapaper, The Atavist, iBooks: The ways we produce and consume long-form journalism are changing. We’ll explain what these new platforms mean for the sort of in-depth journalism most endangered in a pageview-centric world. Learn whether e-books is proving to be a profitable platform for news organizations, what the explosion in Kindle consumption means, and what new tools are actually increasing the market for long-form journalism.
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Panel (L-R): Tim Carmody, Mark Armstrong, Evan Ratliff, Joshua Benton
“We wanted to give further context about the author, publisher, and reading time as well … Then in the spring we introduced social features as well.”
- Mark Armstrong, explaining the launch of longreads.com
“Our goal with Longreads is discovery, community and support.”
- Mark Armstrong
“It enables a lot of experimentation.”
– Tim Carmody, saying it’s more natural to move from one genre and style of writing to another when using long-form journalism.
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“Publishers and content makers are meeting readers where they are.”
- Tim Carmody, talking about long-form applications.
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Carrie Ching @ CIRPretty cool that a successful Twitter hashtag can launch an entire business. @markarms#longreads#longform#ONA11
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For me being a tech journalist, it’s fun to watch.
- Tim Carmody, on watching the development of long-form reads and platforms
Is it a book, or is it an article?
- Joshua Benton, on the size of qualifications of long-form digital narratives
“The e-book revolution has made it even more clear what readers are interested in paying for and consuming …. Do we have any data yet on what kind of works people want to consume in this digital context?”
- Joshua Benton asks the panel.
We’re on our seventh… book. Let’s call them books.
- Evan Ratliff of The Atavist, continuing the size discussion
Longreads: (From the site:) Longreads posts links to new stories every day — they include long-form journalism, magazine stories from your favorite publications (The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic), short stories, interview transcripts, and even historical documents.
“If you have something that’s finished (fact-checked, edited) … all you need to do is get that into an e-book format … Why not try it?”
- Evan Ratliff, answering audience question about the process for a person writing an e-book.
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