Long form journalism on the Web is "not working," TIME.com Managing Editor

Long form journalism, a staple of magazines like Time, is not working, says Josh Tyrangiel, Managing Editor of TIME.com.

In this third part of my chat with Josh, he explains how stories are written and edited for the Web. He says that some 95 percent of content on his site is created exclusively for the Web.

He says that a a lot of the magazine content published on the Web site does not do "too great" online. Some of it is "just too long," he says.

Andy Plesser, Managing Editor

Update: Jim Romenesko has more on the subject today.

You can also find our story up on the Huffington Post

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I don't know how he can say they are not working.

Posted by: lastik satış | Thursday, February 02, 2012 at 07:08 AM

Long-form journalism is not working for Time which, as he rightly points out, readers come to for a quick, newsy take. It seems to be working fine for Slate, however. Its editors claim "recurring reader affection" for a longer feature initiative it's taken.

Posted by: Bob Areabob | Monday, September 13, 2010 at 10:33 AM

I don't know how he can say they are not working.

Posted by: kitchens | Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 05:42 AM

Most news print media's transitions to the web are flawed specifically because they're lacking in the content they're in a unique position to provide -- regional reporting, investigative journalism and expert analyses

Posted by: rapidshare torrent | Monday, August 23, 2010 at 02:56 PM

Wyman's analysis takes a longer view and more thoughtful conclusions: The problem with newspapers (and, by extension, news magazines) is not their excess of long-form journalism but rather their lack. And that most news print media's transitions to the web are flawed specifically because they're lacking in the content they're in a unique position to provide -- regional reporting, investigative journalism and expert analyses -- because their print versions had long ago become so top-heavy with the same non-news that a zillion topical bloggers are already providing in better forms.

Posted by: l-carnitin | Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 01:07 AM