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> Jacobs, in her habitual bright pink lipstick and matching headband, was explaining all this via Skype, from her “little box of a house” in Simi Valley, to Jan
by yodsanklai 12y ago
> Jacobs, in her habitual bright pink lipstick and matching headband, was explaining all this via Skype, from her “little box of a house” in Simi Valley, to Jane Leibrock, 33, who had the more muted look of the fortunate and was sitting in the Oakland headquarters of Even, the start-up where she works. Leibrock — an alumna of Yale; a onetime Beijing resident and Mandarin speaker; a street-fashion blogger; a tweeter of first-world problems (“My personal hell would be having my earbuds pulled out over and over throughout eternity”) — used to study the user experience of privacy settings for Facebook. Now she is a researcher for Even, which proposes, for a fee, to help solve the problem of income volatility.
I'm off topic, but am I the only one to find NY times articles to be abusively long? is it a trend in this type of US publications?
While I find the topic interesting and I would like to know more, the article is just too long, repetitive and boring.
- llamataboot 12y agoIt's from the Sunday magazine which traditionally has much longer-form articles.
- username223 12y ago"Abusively long?" You should try the New Yorker! No, seriously, you should; it would give you a chance to appreciate long-form journalism.
- plink 12y agoSpot on. I agree that the example you cited evinces abuse and not interesting, long-form journalism. It's writing ineptitude.
- boskonyc 12y agoThis is from the magazine, which typically features long-form journalism.
- matthewmcg 12y agoThis article ran in the Sunday Magazine and not one of the news sections of the paper. Articles in the magazine tend to have a more freewheeling style and are usually longer.