No one can argue that journalism isn't changing. In my lifetime there has been a huge increase in the number of platforms that disseminate news. Newspapers and TV news have been supplemented by online media corporations, newspaper's online sites, even Twitter can break news. However, long-form journalism and its stories are here to stay.
Investigative reporting will always be necessary in our society. As long as people continue to read novels and books, they will continue to read long-form journalism. Long-form stories help present the writer's research in a way that intrigues the reader. People also like to read for pleasure, and long-form stories - whether in a magazine, newspaper, or online - can provide this.
However, people today do have shorter attention spans. Therefore, long-form stories will be held to a higher standard. The stories must be well-written, thoroughly reported, and interesting in order to gain readership. Journalists should take the changing market as a challenge and work to create stories that the public will have to read.
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