https://www.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/deca-a-new-writers-collective-for-longform-journalism
Co-founders Stephan Faris and Marc Herman present DECA, a writer's cooperative creating longform stories from around the world. Inspired by the photo agencies of the mid-twentieth century, this group of established non-fiction authors collaborates to fund, edit and market deeply-reported, 10,000 to 20,000-word non-fiction. The stories are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceFZQjykUAo
Co-founders Stephan Faris and Marc Herman present DECA, a writer's cooperative creating longform stories from around the world. Inspired by the photo agencie

https://www.journalismfestival.com/speaker/stephan-faris
Stephan Faris is a founding member of Deca, a writers' collective producing longform dispatches from around the world. He's also a magazine writer and author of Forecast: the Consequence of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley (2008).His articles have appeared in Time Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine.

https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/how-deca-is-taking-a-collaborative-approach-to-longform/s2/a557703/
Over the last few years, journalism co-operatives have sprung up around the world with the aim of creating a sustainable model for journalists to report on stories which may not be covered by mainstream media. Now an international collective of award-winning journalists are applying the co-operative model to longform, under the name of Deca.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deca_(journalism_collective)
Deca is a cooperative of magazine writers co-owned and managed by its members. Their cooperative model is based on photo agencies like Magnum and NOOR.Each journalist reports and writes independently but stories are edited and promoted collectively. Their writers are based all over the world, including Rome, London, Shanghai, Barcelona, Beirut, Abu Dhabi, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, and

https://www.forbes.com/sites/naomishavin/2014/06/26/is-new-journalism-cooperative-deca-the-future-of-digital-publishing/
Meet Deca, a new long-form journalism cooperative made up of nine award-winning, best-seller-writing, globally-scattered freelance journalists. Deca is not a publication; it is a brand, a network

https://archives.cjr.org/realtalk/deca_freelance_collective.php
Enter the freelancer-founded collective journalism startup. Deca, a new nonfiction platform created by an international collective of magazine writers, is based on the premise that freelance writers know what readers want and what makes a great story, at least better than staff editors do. "Imagine if a group of writers for top magazines

https://deca.substack.com/
Updates from the writers of Deca, a global journalism cooperative. Click to read Deca, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers. ... New. Top. Community. It's 2020. Where's Deca now? (Still kickin'. Sort of) Feb 4, 2020. 4. ... Welcome to the first of what we hope will be a quarterly newsletter from Deca, a collective of eleven

https://deca.substack.com/p/an-update-from-our-intrepid-writers-18-03-15
Sonia Faleiro, who wrote 13 Men for Deca, reported on an Indian father's search for his missing daughter for BBC4 radio's From Our Own Correspondent. Read her op-ed for The New York Times on India's missing children and her essay for The Financial Times on life in the Sundarbans archipelago, home to man-eating tigers. She reviewed Snigdha Poonam's Dreamers, Neel Mukherjee's A State of

https://www.jayabhattacharjirose.com/a-fistful-of-journalism-an-interview-with-deca-collective/
The members of Deca, a global journalism cooperative, share the reason for sharing it, and the future of web publishing. Deca is a global journalism cooperative that creates long-form stories about the world to read on mobile devices ( www.decastories.com and @decastories). It takes its cue from Magnum Photos, a member-owned cooperative that

https://deca.substack.com/about
Updates from the writers of Deca, a global journalism cooperative. Click to read Deca, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

https://www.journalismfestival.com/speaker/marc-herman
Mutual benefits: a new generation of journalism cooperatives. Lina Attalah. Marc Herman. Sameer Padania. Eugenia Siapera. Bram Souffreau. ... Deca: a new writers' collective for longform journalism. Stephan Faris. Marc Herman. Co-founders Stephan Faris and Marc Herman present DECA, a writer's cooperative creating longform stories from around

https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/longform_overload.php
Longform overload New narrative journalism startups, like Latterly Magazine, launch as quickly as others fail in a crowded marketplace ... Deca, a collective of 10 freelance writers, split revenue; Epic allows film and TV studios options to buy story rights, ... Admirable as each new venture may be, the longform space is a packed arena to enter

https://commforum.mit.edu/long-form-journalism-behind-the-scenes-at-the-atlantic-b15290e25cb9
Some have called long-form journalism an endangered species. But ground-breaking articles requiring months of research and writing continue to appear. ... will chart the journey of a major feature story from conception to publication and speculate about the future of long-form writing in the digital age. Tom Levenson, Prof. of Writing at MIT

https://media.journalismfestival.com/speaker/marc-herman
Marc Herman is co-founder of Deca, a cooperative of award-winning journalists bringing deeply reported, global stories straight to our digital readers.He is the author of The Wizard and The Volcano, Searching for El Dorado, and The Shores of Tripoli.He has worked as a freelance reporter since 1993. Read More

https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2013/how-two-young-journalists-are-helping-to-highlight-longform-journalism-written-by-women/
The fact that the VIDA numbers show most longform authors were men in 2012 (and in 2011 and 2010) proves a disconnect when we imagine the capabilities of women as storytellers. Longform is a vital

https://lithub.com/what-does-longform-journalism-really-mean/
In 2011, The Atavist Magazine began to publish longform stories—"one blockbuster nonfiction story a month, generally between 5,000 and 30,000 words." Since its inception, The Atavist's stories have been nominated for eight National Magazine Awards; the magazine's first win, for 2015's "Love and Ruin," was also the first time the coveted "feature writing" award went to a

https://ijnet.org/en/story/how-make-longform-articles-more-engaging
To make stories more engaging, you may have to experiment with different narrative tools and media. "I don't think the future of journalism is people reading 10,000-word articles on their desktop computers," he said. Due to the success of audio stories, for example, Narratively recently launched full-length audio versions of every new published

https://www.festivaldelgiornalismo.com/programme/2017/deca-a-new-writers-collective-for-longform-journalism
Co-founders Stephan Faris and Marc Herman present DECA, a writer's cooperative creating longform stories from around the world. Inspired by the photo agencies of the mid-twentieth century, this group of established non-fiction authors collaborates to fund, edit and market deeply-reported, 10,000 to 20,000-word non-fiction. The stories are sold in

https://www.voxmagazine.com/arts/books/5-best-longform-journalism-sites/article_799f63ef-e062-5f10-8bac-eaa1a0e8c468.html
Below are five longform journalism sites, which curate and produce cool longform pieces. The Atavist — "Where stories begin". The Atavist produces and publishes original longform stories once per month. Users can choose to buy their stories both for a Kindle / Nook version with less media content or buy the iPad/iPhone version with audio

https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2023/05/14/introducing-deep-reads-washington-posts-home-longform-narrative-journalism/
Each story in the new collection will have a Deep Reads label affixed to the top of the article for readers to easily access the full breadth of The Post's award-winning narrative journalism.

https://medium.com/matter/when-writers-revolt-2ea7426abcd0
Late last week reporter Tony Horwitz, writing in the New York Times, told the story of publishing Boom, a long work of narrative nonfiction, in digital-only format, and getting screwed. After

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-form_journalism
Long-form journalism. Long-form journalism is a branch of journalism dedicated to longer articles with larger amounts of content. [1] Typically, this will be between 1,000 and 20,000 words. Long-form articles often take the form of creative nonfiction or narrative journalism .

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbernick/2024/06/25/a-writing-room-the-new-marketplace-of-writer-classes-retreats-and-collectives/
A Writing Room launched in June 2023, and followed a few months later with an inaugural writers retreat in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Though hastily arranged, the retreat attracted more than 400 in