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Longform was an American media company founded in Brooklyn, New York City, in April 2010 by journalists Max Linsky and Aaron Lammer. It operated a longform article recommendation service until January 2022, and hosted an interview podcast with journalists talking about their craft until June 2024. Podcast ''The Longform Podcast'', hosted by Linsky and Lammer, along with Evan Ratliff, was launched in 2012 in a makeshift studio at the offices of '' The Atavist Magazine''. It consisted of interviews with journalists talking about their craft. Its 585 episodes were published weekly, with the hosts alternating. Each episode interviewed one journalist, sometimes discussing a single story they'd written and other times their entire oeuvre. It joined the Vox Media Podcast Network in August 2021. It published its last episode in June 2024, at which time ''The New York Times'' wrote that it had become "required listening for aspiring and early-career writers who were eager to learn about ...
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Long-form Journalism
Long-form journalism refers to a genre of journalism characterized by in-depth reporting and storytelling that has more substantial content than the average news report. These pieces often explore topics with greater detail, context and narrative techniques, blending factual reporting with literary elements such as character development, scene-setting and dialogue. Because long-form journalism usually employs stylistic and structural elements often used in fiction, it is sometimes referred to as literary journalism or narrative journalism. While traditionally associated with print newspaper articles, the digital revolution expanded the genre's reach to online magazines, newspapers and other digital platforms, which often use a blend of multimedia to create an immersive reader experience. Characteristics * Structure: Long-form journalism does not follow the inverted pyramid structure that many news reporters and editors favor. Instead, it presents the factual reporting of ne ...
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Longform
Long form or longform may refer to: *A variety of improvisational theatre *A type of census questionnaire *Form 1040, an American income tax form *Long-form journalism Long-form journalism refers to a genre of journalism characterized by in-depth reporting and storytelling that has more substantial content than the average news report. These pieces often explore topics with greater detail, context and narrativ ... * Longform.org, a long-form journalism curation website and interview podcast See also * Short form (other) {{disambig ...
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Evan Ratliff
Evan Ratliff (born c. 1975)Gillette, Felix ''Bloomberg Businessweek'' (Jan. 20, 2011). is an American journalist, author, and podcast host. Ratliff is a contributor to ''Wired, Bloomberg Businessweek,'' and ''The New Yorker''. He has written one book, ''The Mastermind,'' and hosted multiple podcasts, including ''Shell Game, Persona: The French Deception,'' and ''Longform''. He is the former CEO and co-founder of '' The Atavist Magazine'', a media and software company, and the co-founder of Pop-Up Magazine. Career Ratliff is one of the co-authors of ''Safe: the Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World''. His article "The Zombie Hunters: On the Trail of Cyberextortionists", written for ''The New Yorker'' in 2005, was featured in ''The Best of Technology Writing 2006''. He is also the author of the book ''The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal'', which profiles the criminal Paul Le Roux. He is the writer and host of the podcasts ''Shell Game'', in which h ...
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Matthieu Aikins
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Adrian Chen
Adrian Chen (; born November 23, 1984) is an American blogger, and former staff writer at ''The New Yorker''. Chen joined Gawker in November 2009 as a night shift editor, graduating from an internship position at ''Slate'', and has written extensively on Internet culture, especially virtual communities such as 4chan and Reddit. Chen is the creator of ''The Pamphlette'', a "humor publication" for Reed College students on a piece of letter-size paper. He has written for ''The New York Times'', ''New York'' magazine, ''Wired'', and other publications. In October 2012, Chen exposed the real name and details of Violentacrez (a moderator of several Reddit jailbait communities), a Texas Internet developer, who was subsequently fired from his job. This led to all links to Gawker being temporarily banned from Reddit. In September 2012, Chen acquiesced to demands from Anonymous and posted images of himself dressed in a tutu with a shoe perched on his head. The images had been demanded in ...
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Mina Kimes
Mina Mugil Kimes (born September 8, 1985) is an American journalist who specializes in business and sports reporting. She has written for ''Fortune'', ''Bloomberg News'', and ''ESPN''.Keith J. Kelly, May 7, 2014, ''New York Post''ESPN drafts Bloomberg's Mina Kimes Retrieved July 25, 2015, "...Although the 28-year-old writer snagged a fair number of awards for investigative business stories..."Debbie Emery, February 3, 2019, The WrapSuper Bowl LIII Is 'About Experience vs Youth,' ESPN's Mina Kimes and Dianna Russini Say Retrieved March 22, 2019Shlomo Sprung, May 2, 2018, Awful Announcing Retrieved March 22, 2019 She is a senior writer at ESPN and an analyst on ''NFL Live''. Early life Kimes was born September 8, 1985, in Omaha, Nebraska. Her father served in the United States Air Force as a captain. Kimes is of Korean descent on her mother's side.Mina Kimes, TumblrPapas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Niner Fans Retrieved October 4, 2016 Kimes moved to Arizona with her fami ...
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Joshuah Bearman
Joshuah Bearman is an American journalist. He has written for ''Rolling Stone'', ''Harper's'', ''Wired'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', '' The Believer'', and ''McSweeney's,'' and contributes to ''This American Life.'' Bearman was a contributing producer on the documentary, '' The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters''. Bearman is an advisory board member of 826LA, a non-profit tutoring organization in Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles, California. Several of Bearman's articles have been optioned for film and television adaptation. His 2007 ''Wired'' article about a CIA mission during the Iran Hostage Crisis was adapted as the 2012 film ''Argo,'' with George Clooney producing and Ben Affleck directing and starring. The screenplay, based on Bearman's article, won the Writer's Guild award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Award fo ...
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Chris Jones (drama Critic)
Christopher or Chris Jones may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film, TV, theatre * Chris Jones (filmmaker) (born 1967), British filmmaker, author, film director, screenwriter and educator * Christopher Jones (actor, born 1941) (1941–2014), American actor * Christopher Jones (actor, born 1982), American actor and dancer Gaming * Chris Jones (Access Software) (born 1955), co-creator of the ''Tex Murphy'' detective adventure game series * Chris Jones (game developer), founder of Obsidian Entertainment, a computer game company Music * Christopher Michael Jones (born 1969), American hip hop and R&B record producer * Chris Jones (British singer) (born 1985), British singer and songwriter * Chris Jones (American musician) (1958–2005), American musician and composer *Chris Jones (bluegrass musician), American singer/guitarist, leader of the Night Drivers Writing * Chris Jones, editor of the Australian newspaper ''The Courier-Mail'' * Christopher Jones (comics) (born 1969), Americ ...
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Jeanne Marie Laskas
Jeanne Marie Laskas (born September 22, 1958) is an American writer, journalist, and professor. Career Laskas is the author of eight books, including ''To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope'' (2018), based on a ''New York Times Magazine'' article, and ''Concussion'' (2015). Similarly, Concussion is based on her 2009 '' GQ'' article "Game Brain" about forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu, who tried to publicize his findings of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players despite NFL opposition. The article was also adapted by Laskas and screenwriter Peter Landesman into a film of the same name, starring Will Smith as Omalu. Laskas is currently a '' GQ'' correspondent and contributes to the ''New York Times Magazine''. Laskas' other works include ''Hidden America'' (2012)'', Growing Girls'' (2006),''The Exact Same Moon'' (2003), and ''Fifty Acres and Poodle'' (2000). Laskas' work has been widely anthologized, including in ''The'' ''Best American Magazine ...
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Gideon (; ) also named Jerubbaal and Jerubbesheth, was a military leader, judge and prophet whose calling and victory over the Midianites is recounted in of the Book of Judges in both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible. Gideon was the son of Joash, from the Abiezrite clan in the tribe of Manasseh and lived in Ephra (Ophrah). As a leader of the Israelites, he won a decisive victory over a Midianite army despite a vast numerical disadvantage, leading a troop of 300 men. Archaeologists in southern Israel have found a 3,100-year-old fragment of a jug with five letters written in ink that appear to represent the name Jerubbaal, or Yeruba'al. Names The nineteenth-century Strong's Concordance derives the name "Jerubbaal" from "Baal will contend", in accordance with the folk etymology, given in . According to biblical scholar Lester Grabbe (2007), " udges6.32 gives a nonsensical etymology of his name; it means something like 'Let Baal be great. Likewise, where Strong gave ...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates ( ; born September 30, 1975) is an American author, journalist, and activist. He gained a wide readership during his time as national correspondent at ''The Atlantic'', where he wrote about cultural, social, and political issues, particularly regarding African Americans and white supremacy.Fortin, Jacey (July 20, 2018)"Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Leaving The Atlantic" ''The New York Times''. In 2015, Coates received a MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, MacArthur Foundation. His work has been published in numerous periodicals. He has published four nonfiction books: ''The Beautiful Struggle'' (2008), ''Between the World and Me'' (2015), ''We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy'' (2017), and ''The Message (Coates book), The Message'' (2024). ''Between the World and Me'' won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction. He has also written a ''Black Panther (comics), Black Panther'' series and a ''Captain America'' se ...
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Mac McClelland
Gabriel Mac (formerly known as Mac McClelland) is an American author and journalist. From 2007 to 2012, he was a staff reporter at '' Mother Jones'', eventually in the position of human rights reporter. He has also written for ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''Rolling Stone'', and other publications. Early life and education Mac was born in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2002, Mac received a B.A. in English and psychology from Ohio State University. In 2006, he received an MFA from University of New Orleans in nonfiction. Career From 2007 to 2013, Mac worked at '' Mother Jones'', where he began as an intern, working his way up from fact checker and copy editor until he was published as a writer. From 2010 to 2013, he was a Human Rights reporter, a position that was created for Mac. Mac has covered both domestic and foreign stories, with international locations including Thailand, Haiti, Australia, Burma, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Bhutan. Mac worked on extensive ...
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