Decline of the WSJ « The Dish - 0 views
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Dean Starkman charts the number of WSJ pieces longer than 2,500 words:
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A common trait among Pulitzer projects is that they are ambitious, require extensive reporting and careful writing, carry some significance beyond the normal gathering of news, and/or have some kind of impact on the real world
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Rupert] Murdoch’s oft-stated antipathy to the concept of longform narrative public-interest journalism was the main reason some of us opposed his taking over the Journal in the first place
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