As news organizations skew younger, the way in which they’re covering and conveying the news is adapting to fit the preferences of their millennial reporters. By no means is the journalistic convention known as the article losing its purpose… But there are other content forms popping up – polls, maps, charts and videos that range from six seconds to feature-length – that aren’t just supplementing a text article; they’re the way of telling a tale… With these new story formats — and presumably more on the way — millennial journalists need to keep a slew of other crafty devices, beyond a catchy lede, in their back pockets.
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