anchor: The four weekly events  an op-ed in the style of the New York Times (750 words or thereabouts); a New Yorker Talk of the Town piece (750 words or thereabouts); the first 1,000 words of a Vanity Fair profile; and a breaking news story (750 words or thereabouts).
positive: The NY Times style op-ed should be roughly 750 words.
negative: The NY Times style op-ed should be roughly the same word count as the Vanity Fair profile.