A simple indication of the article's topic up front is is all I want. The title may hint it has something to do with "cheese", but when I can't figure out the t

A simple indication of the article's topic up front is is all I want. The title may hint it has something to do with "cheese", but when I can't figure out the topic is "a dairy strike over wages in Wisconsin is causing a cheese shortage" (completely made up example) until paragraph 20 I get annoyed. The promise of modern long form journalism was deeper, more detailed reporting on complex subjects. Instead it's typically the same depth of reporting with a whole pile of details about the reporter's life and how the researched the story. I know people like that style or it wouldn't be as common, but when I hear "long form" I want to leave far more informed than the typical newspaper article. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much of that style out there.