Is long-form journalism doomed to being subsidized by traffic-baiting animal slideshows?
That was one of the questions lobbed at a panel of reporters and editors from Bloomberg Businessweek last night at Housing Works Bookstore.
"If you look at magazines, oh, eight years ago, they demanded much longer stories because they were making more editorial pages," said editor-in-chief Josh Tyrangiel, by way of reply. "Most weeklies these days have gone down in pages."
