Old an New Journalism: Coming to Terms

These two pieces about the future of journalism were interesting for me to read, and I compared them to my experiences with print and digital media. The Atlantic video How Is Social Media Changed Journalism? brings up many good points about new, being online resources, and old, being print and other mediums, journalism and the reader.  Many of the goals of new journalism involves reaching a larger audience and the sharing of an article or news piece.  Facebook is specifically mentioned as a means to spread articles.  A woman in the video specifically mentions that old media can learn the ability to move quicker, bring more voices into the conversation to create a conversation.  This compromise between media types is necessary to reach a larger audience and maintain this audience in new media.  The other text Against 'Long-Form Journalism' the author, James Bennet, challenges the term 'long-form journalism' for the negative connotations it has, mostly due to the words used itself. This piece seems to be written for writers, a cry to take back long-form journalism and apply it to this online media.  He even gave examples of online pieces that have succeeded as long form in this tricky medium.  However, this piece rarely includes the reader's point of view. he talks about his love of long-form journalism, but not from a reader's perspective. He does not focus on how to refresh the term 'long-form journalism' an apply it to this new journalism.  The video mentions that new media should reach a larger audience and have the ability to move quickly, which might be most easily done with shorter article or other pieces.  This is not inherently bad, however, where short articles thrive, long-form journalism will suffer.