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Slow journalism

Meaning in journalism & media, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In journalism & media, slow journalism means: Journalism that prioritises time for investigation, context and reflection over immediate publication.

In Turkish: yavaş gazetecilik

How it is used

Use for a deliberate editorial approach; a missed deadline alone is not slow journalism.

Example sentences

  1. Their slow journalism project returned to the flooded town after the television crews had left.

    Returning later allows consequences to be reported after immediate attention fades.

  2. The editor defended slow journalism because the contracts needed months of careful examination.

    The publication timetable follows the evidence-gathering needs.

Common collocations

  • slow journalism project
  • slow journalism approach
  • support slow journalism
  • investigative journalismJournalism that spends weeks or months uncovering hidden information, often about wrongdoing, corruption or abuse of power, using documents, data and confidential sources.
  • follow-upA new story that reports later developments of an event already covered, such as the results of an investigation or how people's lives changed.

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