Economist to publish longform, multimedia stories on Medium

Adam Smith, the deputy community editor at the Economist, posted the following on Medium:

For the next couple of months we’ll be sharing some of our best longform or multimedia journalism, and some behind-the-scenes glimpses into the process of how our correspondents work. It’s a very different kind of journalism from the rapid-response news analyses we published in the run-up to America’s recent election. Some of this work will be produced exclusively for Medium, meaning you won’t even be able to find it on economist.com or in print.

So what exactly should you expect? The answer is: surprise. The Economist may be known for thoughtful, punchy analysis about politics and business. But we also like to report on everything else, from nature to history and from music to typefaces — and to take our time to do it. Throughout the year we publish longform essays and briefings. And at the end of the year, in a special print issue of our newspaper, we publish around 15 crafted feature articles on topics as broad as beer and reindeer. In 2016, that issue will be published on December 23rd.

It is from this strand that we’ll be feeding our Medium publication over the next two months. That’s a mixture of pieces from our recent archive (stay tuned to read about the world’s hardest language) but also photo essays created exclusively for Medium to accompany some of the stories in this year’s final print issue. And because we know that Medium readers are even more inquisitive than average, we’ve also convinced some of our correspondents to tell us the stories of why and how they reported what they did. Some of them will be coming out from behind The Economist’s famous veil of anonymity.

Read more here.