Journalism students spend so much of their time doing pointless writing exercises, they feel like they should continue with it, as if their reputation depends on it.
In the modern world the opposite is true - attention spans are short, you must get to the point.
A similar thing is true in video - I can't stand vloggers who dance around or have to explain the whole history of the subject before getting to the point.
I blame Google - they incentivise long articles with lots of keywords and longer videos.
Long form content actually does very well online when it is an interesting subject and well-written (and, increasingly, creatively designed).
For example: this article has been voted to the front page of HN, which is more than thousands of terse, AP-style inverted-pyramid news articles can say.
Usually long form content in specific fields is entertaining for me but when it comes to news articles, I'd much rather read summarized content with a only few exceptions.
Journalism students spend so much of their time doing pointless writing exercises, they feel like they should continue with it, as if their reputation depends on it.
In the modern world the opposite is true - attention spans are short, you must get to the point.
A similar thing is true in video - I can't stand vloggers who dance around or have to explain the whole history of the subject before getting to the point.
I blame Google - they incentivise long articles with lots of keywords and longer videos.