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Exactly - Look at the Serial podcast, I'd consider this one of the better pieces of journalism in the past few years. But it took her six months (maybe more?) a
by sharkweek 12y ago
Exactly - Look at the Serial podcast, I'd consider this one of the better pieces of journalism in the past few years. But it took her six months (maybe more?) and countless hours of research, investigation and interviews to produce. At the end of the day, this piece will do pretty well, but in those six months, The Huffington Post's on the internet have put out tens of thousands of articles garnering billions of ad impressions. Fortunately we're left with an extremely interesting story in Serial, but imagine if 2-3 months into all that hard work the whole thing fell apart? All that work for nothing? Not worth the risk for major publications.
No idea what the solution is here, very difficult problem.
- j2kun 12y agoTo be fair, your two examples fill very different roles (daily news versus long-form nonfiction). Serial strikes me as closer to fiction or memoir than daily news.
- sharkweek 12y agoYeah, sorry wasn't clear in my original point that it's extremely tough to produce high quality investigative journalism when there's a far easier and more profitable model out there.
- sswaner 12y agoBut truth is fleeting. Despite all Sarah's work on Serial, there is a possibility that some contradicting detail will emerge as some point in the future. Even the infamous Best Buy phones waver between fact and fiction. To this point, it may be impossible to fully fact check an article to the point of certainty, but New York magazine could have at least done better.