The Slow Journalism. To report on events after the dust has settled and the news agenda has moved on and therefore present a story in its proper context with time to reflect more soberly on whatevers happened. News journalism has changed fundamentally in the last 20 years.
Modern news production is filled to the brim with reprinted press releases kneejerk punditry advertorial nonsense and churnalism. WE CUT THROUGH THE WHITE NOISE. Many scholars and practi-tioners internationally have been thinking critically about the problems.
Like the slow food movement from which it gets its name slow journalism stresses openness and transparency laying bare to audiences its sourcing and methods and inviting participation in the final product.
Can Slow Journalism Save Us From Hyper-Sensationalized Reporting. Editor Rob Orchard of Delayed Gratification magazine uses seven headlines to trace the corrosive effect of disinvestment and hyper-speedy digital news dissemination and to call for a Slow Journalism revolution. An amalgam of the more rarified forms of reportingexclusive investigativewith more informed more interpretive more explanatory even more impressionistic or opinionated takes on current events Stephens 2009 4. News journalism has changed fundamentally in the last 20 years.