Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

Impressed by this feature! I think this is a glimpse at how newspapers can become a lot more relevant/adapt to an online medium. Right now most news sites don't nearly take advantage of presenting a story online.

"why would I pay for news when I can get it for free"

Why do people buy Time magazine or National Geographic? There is a big difference between "news" and better/well researched background articles. There are whole brick-and-mortar stores dedicated to selling magazines like this. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to transfer this to the web, or has it has become quite popular lately, a tablet of some sort.

The best long-form presentation of an article or essay I have ever seen on the internet.

That is a great point. It would almost be fun to learn in this type of way.

I think this works because the little videos in the breaks actually do a great job of complementing the content of the article (and happen to be pretty).

There was a link yesterday on HN that used a similar technique, but the breaks were static images that didn't really add anything to the content of the article [1]. Sure, they're pretty and novel, but I thought the breaks did more harm then good for somebody actually reading the interview. They were more distracting than anything.

I have a feeling that we'll see a lot more of this technique in the future. I personally hope that it doesn't just get slapped on for its visual appeal, but rather as a medium to present value-added content (like this NY Times article did).

[1] http://womenandtech.com/interview/heather-payne/