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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Longform Journalism

1. November 21, 2011 03:09 PM

   FT Style Undermines A Good Investigation

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Financial Times has a good investigation today into how hedge funds are stocking their boards with directors in the Cayman Islands who serve on hundreds of boards. The FT did a lot of work here, analyzing thousands of SEC filings to come up with its numbers, which show hedge funds are using something like robosigners: Call them robo-directors. Like...

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2. October 11, 2011 06:09 PM

   Charts of the Day, WSJ Story-Length Edition

   Point/Counterpoint: Salmon/Chittum

   By Felix Salmon

   Ryan Chittum has taken a look at the length of the stories on the front page of the WSJ. Here’s what’s happened to the number of stories under 1,500 words: Here’s the stories over 1,500 words: And here’s the stories over 2,500 words: Ryan is dismayed at these trends. “Without going long,” he writes, “it’s hard to achieve greatness”: Certainly,...

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3. February 23, 2012 07:56 PM

   Matter’s Vision for Long-form Journalism

   By Felix Salmon

   Yesterday morning, a very exciting new journalism project was launched on Kickstarter. It’s called Matter, and it’s going to be home to long-form investigative narrative journalism about science and technology. “No cheap reviews, no snarky opinion pieces, no top ten lists,” they promise. “Just one unmissable story.” They hit a nerve: as I write this, some 31 hours after the...

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4. March 21, 2011 03:15 PM

   Narrative Found

   This Land Press closes investment deal; will become Oklahoma’s first (or at least strongest) new media company

   By Michael Meyer

   Earlier this month, This Land Press published the latest installment in its ongoing coverage of Bradley Manning, the army private accused of providing thousands of pages of classified documents to WikiLeaks. The story, by newly minted This Land staff reporter Denver Nicks, looks at a formative period of Manning’s life through the eyes of Jordan Davis, Manning’s best friend from...

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5. October 10, 2011 09:40 PM

   The Shorter-Form Journal

   The number of long stories has plunged under Murdoch

   By Ryan Chittum

   Story length in journalism by itself doesn’t mean much. We read too many news stories that are just too damned long. But, on the other hand, without going long, it’s hard to achieve greatness. It sure makes harder to tell a story or lay out evidence, much less capture nuance and complexity. A longer story signals to readers that this...

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6. April 18, 2012 12:04 PM

   What the Loebs Can Learn From the Pulitzers

   By Felix Salmon

   I’m not a huge fan of journalism awards. The Pulitzers, in particular, are a peculiar fish: they tend to award long and worthy work which almost nobody had the time to wade through when it first came out. That’s a type of journalism, to be sure — but is it the very best journalism that the profession produces? And while...

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