ABSTRACT

Slow Journalism has emerged in recent years to enact a critique of the limitations and dangers of the speed of much mainstream contemporary journalistic practice. There have been types of journalism produced and consumed slowly for centuries, of course. What is new is the context of hyper-acceleration and over-production of journalism, where quality has suffered, ethics are compromised and user attention has eroded. Many have been asking if there is another way to practice journalism. The emergence of Slow Journalism suggests that there is.

Many international scholars and practitioners have been thinking critically about the problems wrought by speed, and are utilising the concept of "slow" to describe a new way of thinking about and producing journalism. This edited collection offers theoretical perspectives and case studies on the practice of slow journalism around the globe. Slow Journalism is a new practice for new times. This book was originally published as two special issues of Journalism Practice and Digital Journalism.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction: Slow Journalism

An introduction to a new research paradigm

chapter |15 pages

Reclaiming Slowness in Journalism

Critique, complexity and difference

chapter |16 pages

Lessening the Construction of Otherness

A slow ethics of journalism

chapter |15 pages

The Temporal Tipping Point

Regimentation, representation and reorientation in ethnographic journalism

chapter |14 pages

When Slow News is Good News

Book-length journalism’s role in extending and enlarging daily news

chapter |18 pages

Slow Journalism in Spain

New magazine startups and the paradigmatic case of Jot Down

chapter |16 pages

Is there a Future for Slow Journalism?

The perspective of younger users

chapter |13 pages

Editing, Fast and Slow

chapter |18 pages

Networked News Time

How slow—or fast—do publics need news to be?

chapter |17 pages

The Sochi Project

Slow journalism within the transmedia space

chapter |16 pages

Slowing down Media Coverage on the US–Mexico Border

News as sociological critique in Borderland

chapter |16 pages

Resiliency in Recovery

Slow journalism as public accountability in post-Katrina New Orleans

chapter |18 pages

Time to Engage

De Correspondent’s redefinition of journalistic quality

chapter |18 pages

“Make Every Frame Count”

The practice of slow photojournalism and the work of David Burnett

chapter |17 pages

The Business of Slow Journalism

Deep storytelling’s alternative economies