The Slow Journalism. A compendium of artifacts and discourses about Slowness in media news journalism and communication. The worlds first ever slow journalism conference was held during the last week of June this year at the University of Oregon organised by Peter Laufer the James Wallace Chair in Journalism at the universitys Oregon School of 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. Slow journalism is a serious subculture that pushes against the din of re-hashed press releases advertorials and kneejerk opinion pieces and instead seeks to provide factual analysis that has taken time and care to produce. Matthew Lee is an associate editor and a co-founder of Delayed Gratification the worlds first Slow Journalism publication which launched in 2010 and recently celebrated its 10th birthday.
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.
Slow Journalism as a genre is about the style and form in which the story is told. A compendium of artifacts and discourses about Slowness in media news journalism and communication. The slow journalism revolution Rob Orchard TEDxMadrid - YouTube. Twenty years ago media experts were already warning that working at high speeds encourages journalists to fall.