In today's age, teenagers and young people are captured by a world of go, go, go, where they expect everything to be done at lightening speed. Their cell phones must have 4G, they must have high-speed Internet, their Tweets must be under 140 characters... Does all of this relate to long-form journalism? Perhaps. In my Media and Society class with Jeremy Littau last semester, we discovered that only 4 our of 55 people in the class read the newspaper on a daily basis. When asked who reads articles that are Tweeted, or posted online, most people raised their hands. Is this because our generation is so used to consuming our media quickly? Perhaps.
If we transfer this to journalism, it could be easy to predict that long-form journalism is a way of the past, or will be very soon. If the print newspaper industry is dying, and the only way for it to survive is online, then it's safe to say this is happening to the journalism industry, as well. But the key to online is that articles must be more pithy, more brief and shorter. So how can long-form journalism survive in a world where newspapers and journals can only survive online? I don't think it can.
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