Delayed Gratification is the world’s first Slow Journalism magazine. A beautiful quarterly publication which revisits the events of the last three months to offer in-depth, independent journalism in an increasingly frantic world.
WE VALUE BEING RIGHT ABOVE BEING FIRST
Like the other Slow movements such as Slow Food and Slow Travel, we take time to do things properly. Instead of desperately trying to beat social media to breaking news stories, we focus on the values we all expect from quality journalism – accuracy, depth, context, analysis and expert opinion.
WE INVEST IN JOURNALISM
Almost everyone else is sacking journalists, cutting editorial budgets and using generic wire stories to fill in the gaps. We’re going the other way, putting every penny from every subscription to Delayed Gratification back into tracking down and publishing amazing stories from journalists and photographers on the ground. We don’t carry advertisements in Delayed Gratification, so this truly is reader-funded journalism.
WE TELL YOU HOW STORIES END
How often have you been bombarded with a story by the media for several days, only to feel dissatisfied when the news agenda moves on to the next big story and you never get to discover what happened next? We pick up the pieces after the dust has settled so you can read about the medium- and long-term impact of news events.
WE DON’T HAVE INFINITE SPACE TO FILL
Which means we don’t fall into 24/7 news traps: the speculation, conjecture and hot air. We’ve got just 120 pages every three months, so we make every one of them count.
WE CUT THROUGH THE WHITE NOISE
Modern news production is filled to the brim with reprinted press releases, kneejerk punditry, advertorial nonsense and churnalism. Slow Journalism is an antidote to this: intelligent, curated, non-partisan news coverage designed to inspire and inform.
In summary:
Delayed Gratification seems like an amazing alternative to fast, negative news. They tackle a lot of the issues that annoy me about the media - their intention is to inform and inspire, and it seems like they do everything right. They're not owned by a big conglomerate who's only interest is profit, they don't advertise so there's no companies to please, they have a longer amount of time to speak with a wide range of sources so they're not simply twisting stories to please the good ones. The are completely unbiased.
Even though they don't just focus on positive news - I appreciate how they provide a solution to these issues within the media. I think that whatever I produce should definitely take into account Slow Journalism.
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