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1. 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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2. November 15, 2012 03:30 PM

   What’s the MATTER?

   A Kickstarter-funded longform narrative science journalism site launches

   By Sara Morrison

   MATTER, a Kickstarter-funded longform science journalism project, launched on Wednesday with its first article, written by prominent science writer Anil Ananthaswamy. Just shy of 7,800 words, it tells the story of a man, "David," and his struggle with Body Integrity Identity Disorder. Basically, David desperately wants to cut one of his legs off. He's helped on his quest by a...

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