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I think there should be considered a distinction between a magazine's content (produced over a week or a month, with time to pause and consider the news cycle)
by instagraham 3y ago
I think there should be considered a distinction between a magazine's content (produced over a week or a month, with time to pause and consider the news cycle) and everyday journalism content (a newspaper or new site perpetually striving to put things out now). Magazines, at least the right ones, had a quality edge over their more rushed peers.
But when you turn magazine content online, you lose a lot of that edge. One because a lot of magazines digitised very poorly, and ceded informational space to far more digitally native players (Vice, buzzfeed, clickbait news sites).
Two because a magazine story may look the same as a quick 800-word content sludge I could churn out in an hour.
Is there a way for magazine experience to be made more premium in a digital space?