Some Look to iPad, Other Tablets to Revive Long-Form Journalism
This week, several people have floated the idea that Apple’s iPad and similar devices could revive the atrophied art of long-form, investigative journalism. After all, one can still hope that the human mind hasn’t lost its appetite for pages-long reads that delve deep into crucial issues of our time. What’s more, mobile tablets loosely approximate the feel of magazines, but don’t carry the burdensome distribution costs of their print brethren.
In a Monday interview with Katie Couric, Time executive editor Nancy Gibbs said that e-readers offer a superior platform for long-form writing:
You know, the — the one problem with — with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that’s going to involve 16 screens [on]] the Web page, that’s asking a lot of people.
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