Ironically, Michael Kinsley, ex-editor of Slate, has been saying in various exit interviews, that at Slate they were unable to successfully do long-form journalism à la The New Yorker. (Ironically, The New York Times published a story claiming even magazines were abandoning this style of journalism.)

Dorian Benkoil, a managing producer at ABCNEWS.com, rightly disputed this point in an excellent article for Poynter. He offers a great explanation of how online journalism could work.

About six months ago, you may remember reading (here, for example) about journalist Ken Hechtman being kidnapped by the Taliban. Turned out he wasn’t a “real journalist” and the media establishment dropped his case shortly after his release. UBC’s journalism review Webzine has a not-so flattering piece on Hechtman in its March edition. Worth reading, if only to see how bourgeois the media can really be.