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Too long to develop stories, eh? To be honest, that sounds like an encouraging sign, to me. Any news publication that can churn out stories in quantity, is pr
by rossdavidh 8y ago
Too long to develop stories, eh? To be honest, that sounds like an encouraging sign, to me. Any news publication that can churn out stories in quantity, is probably not doing much that is data-driven. Collecting good data takes time, cleaning the data takes time (because even good sources have typos, format issues, etc.), analyzing it takes time, writing coherently about it takes time, making good graphics to illustrate it takes time. We may not, as a society, be currently equipped with a business model to support that, but we should.
- jvagner 8y agoEncouraging..? They have yet to launch.
- rhizome 8y agoBuzzfeed and Uproxx are the ones you're thinking of that started out with the "pithy clickbait gradually transitioning into legitimacy" business model, some with more success at that than others. From what I gather this is not what The Markup was built to do.
- closetohome 8y agoExactly. Investigative journalism is the stuff that takes weeks or months, while clickbait is churned out all day long. Sounds like the whole idea here was to have a journalistic organization that skips the fluff and just does big stories. Hard to fund, but a noble goal nonetheless.
- all2 8y ago> We may not, as a society, be currently equipped with a business model to support that, but we should. There are many newsletters that are thriving. I can only point to Steel on Steel as the one paid bit of content I subscribe to, but I think there are many like it.