The Two Tempos may be getting the company of a third: Slow Journalism?
There is something intriguing about that term. I can think of at least two of my journalism professors in the 1960s who would have never attached “slow” to journalism.
But, heck, they probably would if they were around today.
With the dominance of fast and now, and with a news cycle that is 24/7 plus, perhaps there is a place for the slow journalism that allows for some meditation and recuperation from all that pops up on our mobile devices whether we want to or not.
And, here to serve that segment of the audience who craves for a slow tempo: Delayed Gratification, a start up that urges you to “join the slow journalism revolution.”
Delayed Gratification is like dessert: comes at the end of a meal.
Delayed Gratification calls itself : THE SLOW JOURNALISM SOLUTION
“We publish Delayed Gratification magazine, which revisits the news after the dust has settled to give the final analysis on the stories that mattered.”
Glancing at some of the headlines in the inaugural issue, I see that the new magazine questions the notion of frequency and calendars. One story here is Life after Turkey’s mining disaster. Another story that revisits what we already know: Revisiting South Korea’s ferry tragedy
We welcome Delayed Gratification and wish its editors well.
It is a testimonial to the fact that we must not concentrate on producing one cycle of news and information ,but, in this case three: the constant flow, the curated, and, now, the slow-paced!
For more information:
http://www.slow-journalism.com/
Illustrations on Page One
Illustrations can provide such an energy and spark to a front page; this week as I passed thru the Frankfurt airport in Germany, I was delighted to see examples on the front pages of the Frankfurter Allegemeine, Die Zeit and Handelsblatt.
In each case, the illustration was the visual solution to a specific type of story.