The Slow Journalism. It is a response to the hyper-acceleration of the world in the news from the point of view of both producers and consumers. Slow journalism is a serious subculture that pushes against the din of re-hashed press releases advertorials and kneejerk opinion pieces and instead seeks to provide factual analysis that has taken time and care to produce.
It is a form of journalism that claims the need to take ones time. A compendium of artifacts and discourses about Slowness in media news journalism and communication. Slow journalism is a serious subculture that pushes against the din of re-hashed press releases advertorials and kneejerk opinion pieces and instead seeks to provide factual analysis that has taken time and care to produce.
Rob Orchard is the Co-Founder and Editorial Director of The Slow Journalism Company.
Slow journalism is a critical theory encouraging journalists working in all fields and on all timescales to be mindful of the way journalism is changing. The worlds first ever slow journalism conference was held during the last week of June this year at the University of Oregon organised by Peter Laufer the James Wallace Chair in Journalism at the universitys Oregon School of Journalism. Rob Orchard is the Co-Founder and Editorial Director of The Slow Journalism Company. They question the seemingly objective truth of capitalism that growth is good and endless.