What is Slow Journalism?
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- 13 May 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journalism Practice
- Vol. 9 (2), 138-152
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2014.916471
Abstract
In an era of fast and instantaneous journalism and concerns about the deleterious effects of speed, it can be easy to lose sight of the other kinds of journalism being practiced, other temporalities for its production. There has been little scholarly work on slow journalism, so the first aim of this article is, if not to define, then at least to describe some key characteristics of what slow journalism might be. It will look at how the term has been used on blogs, websites, public forums, and in the minimal scholarly literature available. It will also explore some examples by producers who identify with the term to see what slow journalism looks like in practice. The proliferation of independent journalism using Slow as a way of thinking about production suggests that we are witnessing a new alternative emerging in the mediascape.Keywords
Funding Information
- University of Sydney, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Incubator Grant
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