Dean Starkman at CJR discusses a Columbia University study tracing how newspapers evolved in the last half of the 20th century toward a focus on longer, meatier stories: "In the 1960s, the news business, following society, underwent a shift. It started to produce stories that didn’t necessarily originate from an institution or official, use the pyramid style, or include the word 'yesterday,' and did contain an essential element: context."
