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What is the cost to produce a page like this? Must be high, versus the cost of a normal article with inline images. I cannot imagine that the ROI is worth it. Therefore I think that this article format will disappear for economic reasons.
What is the cost to produce a page like this? Must be high, versus the cost of a normal article with inline images. I cannot imagine that the ROI is worth it. Therefore I think that this article format will disappear for economic reasons.
NY Times did an even longer and more advanced article like this a while ago called "Snow Fall: The avalanche at Tunnel Creek" ( http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunne... ) It had over 3.5 Million page views the first week. Estimates are that it took about three man-months to write and design the long article. But that was two years ago, and without any of the tools and experience they have now.…
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/ http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/two-gunshots/ http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/15/magazine/bad-p... http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/gun-country/ http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/the-jockey/ http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/tomato-can-blues/
The BBC have been experimenting with these kind of long-form "rich media" articles too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_8701/index.h... It's an admirable attempt at telling a story and I appreciate the journalism. Perhaps I'm ADD, but I just don't have the attention span to get engrossed in this kind of format and follow every word through to the end.
if you have the attention span to read articles of this length without the gimmicks i think you should be able to digest this format
Just this past july we rode the Hurtigruten from Bergen to Trondheim. Although the upper decks of the MV Polarlys are like a modest and tasteful cruise ship, and the majority of passengers were there for the scenery and the day-trip excursions, they do still haul cargo and commuters. At every stop there are cars and cargo being put on and off the cargo deck. One surprise was when I got up at 4am to see the famous roa…