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| Byliner / May 15, 2011 |
This story backs up our belief here at AU that journalism is not dead, and long-form, literary journalism, still has a strong market. People will read it.
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Monday, May 16, 2011
Long-form journalism finds new platforms
The Los Angeles Times had a great piece in Sunday's newspaper about new platforms arising for long-form, narrative journalism. The piece talks about new sites like Byliner.com, the Atavist and Virginia Quarterly Review, all of which have given literary journalism a new, highly-visible home.
Byliner.com launched in a big way with John Krakauer's "Three Cups of Deceit," which was a takedown of Greg Mortenson's untruthful memoir "Three Cups of Tea" and the tremendous amount of money Mortenson takes from the charity he created to fund his own book promotions.
This story backs up our belief here at AU that journalism is not dead, and long-form, literary journalism, still has a strong market. People will read it.
This story backs up our belief here at AU that journalism is not dead, and long-form, literary journalism, still has a strong market. People will read it.
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