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It’s been so exciting to see pictures of the Tumblr team moving offices today. The acquisition has officially closed, and now Tumblr is officially part of the Automattic family! I’m looking forward to seeing what the team does next.
… and found a bug or user error. That image should look like this GIF.
Ahoy.
Hi Tumblr! 👋👋👋I’ve missed you.
Emily Perper is a freelance editor and reporter, currently completing a service year in Baltimore with the Episcopal Service Corps.
Salinger’s life is being made into a movie. Someone said writers work best with only one kid. Print journalism is, apparently, still the domain of white men....
Loving the Emily Perper reading lists.
Recently, media people have returned to talking about our love or hate of the following phrases: “Is ‘Snow Fall’ the future of journalism …
Here's my first Medium post, linked from my Tumblr. I don't know WHAT IT ALL MEANS yet, but it's a nice authoring tool, for sure.
Throughout May and June, a new generation of reporters, writers, editors, and essayists make their way out of school and into the professional world. They come bearing clips, work samples produced for class or during an internship. Hundreds of media outlets at colleges and universities across...
Longreads just celebrated its fourth birthday, and it’s been a thrill to watch this community grow since we introduced this service and Twitter hashtag in 2009. Thank you to everyone who participates, whether it’s as a reader, a publisher, a writer—or all three.
Yesterday, Isaac Fitzgerald announced that on May 1 he is leaving The Rumpus after four years as managing editor, and will be assuming the position of publicity director for McSweeney’s.
This is wonderful news and I couldn’t be happier for him. He deserves all the best things. He will also be...
Today’s guest pick comes from Emily M. Keeler, a writer, critic, and the editor of Little Brother Magazine. She recommends two stories, “To Err, Divine, so Improvise” by Kaitlin Fontana in Hazlitt and “Afterlife” by Chris Wallace in The Paris Review:
“This past week was one of...
It’s the little things.
Read-later app Pocket recently announced a suite of tools for publishers, including the ability to ”add a custom text footer message that will appear at the bottom of any article saved from your site.”
I saw it in action for the first time on this great article on The Awl that celebrates the invaluable work that editors do, and bids a heartfelt farewall to departing Awl editor Carrie Frye.
This is the message at the end of the article:
Thanks for reading The Awl! We appreciate you. Hey, do you like reading on your iPhone? You could test out our app for free and see if you like it.
I know that this message is being displayed to everyone who is reading The Awl inside Pocket…and yet I can’t help but be completely charmed.
The Awl isn’t one of my most visited sites (I think the only other Awl story I’ve read is Jeb Boniakowski’s magisterial We Must Build An Enormous McWorld In Times Square, A Xanadu Representing A McDonald’s From Every Nation. Read this now. Seriously. Right now.) but in four short sentences The Awl:
quickly communicated something about their culture. I now associate them with warmth and friendliness.
got me to check out their iPhone app.
got me to check out other articles on their website.
Thumbs-up to Pocket for empowering these intimate moments between publishers and readers, and high-five to The Awl for the great execution.
We have some big news to share today: Longreads is teaming up with The Atlantic, in a partnership that will allow us to expand our site and membership model—and continue to serve this community of readers, writers and publishers.
When I first started the #longreads hashtag four years...
Very excited about this. Thanks to everyone who has participated in this community over the past four years, and we're looking forward to more.
“The Ghost in the Machine.” Alex Pappademas, Playboy.
TL;DR:
Using one line of code (edit: two, if you need to add jQuery), you can add a “Saved Items” button to your site or blog to enable your readers to easily access articles that they have saved from your site to their Pocket account without leaving your site.
Also, using a bookmarklet,...
This looks fantastic.
“The Weeklies.” —Monica Potts, American Prospect
From our Top 5 Longreads of the Week.
Why Longevity Matters
This graph, from the brand new Pocket for Publishers, is a great example. It's the Pocket activity for "Bitter Pill," Time magazine's (incredible, go subscribe and read it) 25,000-word story on the secret costs of healthcare in America, written by Steven Brill. In green, you can see the daily "saves" to Pocket. In red, the daily "opens" in Pocket. Three days after the story was published, "opens" overtook "saves," and this story has gone on to have an open rate of 50% and an active lifespan of 19 days. When readers were given the time to come back to it, they did.
I'm excited to be working on Pocket for Publishers (to my publisher friends, go sign up! It’s free), because I think it's finally answering some important questions about save-for-later. And it’s providing clarity to the sites that are investing in high-quality storytelling that retains its value for weeks, months, and years.
This week, we’re thrilled to feature Jason Zengerle, a contributing editor for New York magazine and GQ who has been featured on Longreads many times. Our Member Pick is Jason’s 1997 story on Michael Moore for Might magazine: “Is This Man the Last, Best Hope for Popular Liberalism...
