The Slow Journalism. While Slow Journalism as a term has only had a sketchy existence over the past 10 years and more so in media than in scholarship it appears that the concept has traction. An amalgam of the more rarified forms of reportingexclusive investigativewith more informed more interpretive more explanatory even more impressionistic or opinionated takes on current events Stephens 2009 4.
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. Like the slow food movement from which it gets its name slow journalism stresses openness and transparency laying bare to audiences its sourcing and methods and inviting participation in the final product. Slow journalism actually goes hand in hand with a term called news fatigue also sometimes called news avoidance.
When it comes to social and traditional media there is a tidal wave of new stories ready to break onto unsuspecting users.
There have been types of journalism produced and consumed slowly for centuries of course. 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. Journalism publication Narratively uses the term slow journalism to describe original quality in-depth human-driven stories that might otherwise fall through the cracks. The stylistic focus tends to be narrative storytelling Le Masurier 2015 143.