Evan Osnos reflects on the importance of investing time in reporting and long-term projects in a world of instant gratification and rapid news cycles.
He points to Paul Salopek’s seven-year walk around the world:
The Out of Eden Walk is being chronicled in real time—blogging, publishing, tweeting—and then, of course, there will be the longer pieces. But all the technical accommodations can make it easy to overlook that the essential project is something we don’t see much of anymore, a kind of reporting Paul calls “slow journalism”—the process of reporting at “a human pace of three miles an hour.”
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