Well-Crafted Longform Can Resonate With Readers on Both Sides of the Poltical Aisle

According to a CJR study, longform wins the day.

Fans of longform narrative, and this writer counts herself as one, tend to herald (with proof) all sorts of great and wonderful things longform enables and exemplifies: The pinnacle of craft! Sustained reader engagement! Funding!

But longform as a form that can cut away at the trend of siloed, partisan-based news consumption, however, was an idea that seemed beyond the capabilities even of those wholly engrossing, satisfying reads. Not [always] so, says a joint study by Columbia Journalism Review and the George T.

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