I’m a student journalist at USC, working on the future of journalism. Find my work here: http://jamestyner.com
One way I had conceived different versions of the same story would be a format in which someone reaches the end of one version and is prompted/teased to continue to learn more, on the same page, with additional information to explore tangents or more context. But the whole story isn’t shown at the beginning — the reader gets to decide how much they…
A 3-min read isn’t very long in the newspaper world! But I think the desire for shorter information now comes because many people get their news in bursts throughout the day rather than in one sitting when the newspaper arrives. All of the stories are decoupled from each other.
