{"id":745154,"date":"2013-04-05T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/?p=227178"},"modified":"2013-04-05T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T12:36:00","slug":"long-form-journalism-site-longreads-joins-the-atlantics-digital-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/745154","title":{"rendered":"Long-form journalism site Longreads joins The Atlantic\u2019s digital network"},"content":{"rendered":"

Longreads and The Atlantic<\/em> have created a partnership that will feature Longreads content across The Atlantic<\/em>‘s digital properties, the companies announced Friday.<\/p>

Longreads, founded by former Time Inc. editor Mark Armstrong in 2009, features daily links to long-form journalism and fiction around the web. It started out as a Twitter hashtag and has grown into a website that includes paid memberships<\/a> for $3 a month or $30 a year, giving members access to exclusive content<\/a>.<\/p>

Longreads remains an independent company, and Armstrong — who is also the editorial director of consume-it-later service Pocket — will retain control over the content featured on the site. The Atlantic<\/em> will provide support on the business and operations side and will feature Longreads content across its digital properties — The Atlantic.com, TheAtlanticWire.com and The AtlanticCities.com — as well as on its mobile apps. Armstrong told me that the move is a way for Longreads to build up its membership model and “explore new models for supporting long-form journalism.”<\/p>

“I’ve watched with interest as Mark Armstrong and the Longreads team have built a socially engaged community that is passionate about great journalism,” Atlantic president M. Scott Havens said in a statement, “and I’m excited to work with them to bring these kinds of stories to our more than 20 million digital readers.”<\/p>
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