The Times, of courese, does long, reported features all the time, but as The Atlantic's Derek Thompson pointed out, "There is no feasible way to make six-month sixteen-person multimedia projects the day-to-day future of journalism, nor is there a need to." But it's been a great year for the "long read" community, and while there were few ads on the full-screen layout for "Snow Fall" that its traffic has been dwarfed while sites might not make single-story advertising too far fetched of an experiment.
The Times, of course, does long, reported features all the time, but as The Atlantic's Derek Thompson pointed out, "There is no feasible way to make six-month sixteen-person multimedia projects the day-to-day future of journalism, nor is there a need to." But it's been a great year for the "long read" community, and while there were few ads on the full-screen layout for "Snow Fall," that its traffic has been dwarfed entire sites might not make single-story advertising too far fetched of an experiment.