Going Long, Melanie Lidman, American Journalism Review, August/September 2008 /

“Reading dispatches is like undergoing a cold turkey detox in the face of today’s endless cycle of updates and headlines. Forgoing the shorter, front-of-the-book articles found in many magazines, it immerses readers in an in-depth report, beginning with the first page. The sparseness of design, refreshing in its simplicity, is a shock to the multitasking, visually overloaded modern brain.”

“‘It comes off at first as an intellectual elite thing,’ said Robbie Blinkoff, managing director at Context-Based Research Group, after looking at dispatches. ‘But the reality is, I think everyone is looking for this.’”

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