But if authors would do that, people will spend far less time reading the articles and result in far less money for the news outlet.
I've started reading long articles on diagonal unless the article is very interesting or technical. I visually scan fast and try to extract the bits of information.
Maybe it would useful to submit articles to something like GPT-3 and get a meaningful summary in return.
Now they have an attention-grabbing or contentious headline and first paragraphs, then right at the bottom of the article include the crucial information that means it's actually not a big deal or particularly unusual.
Inverted pyramid, I think I remember it being called when I was in school. I even remember some newspaper articles that clearly followed the principle. They are very rare now.
Our daily college paper had an Associated Press machine for stories we couldn’t send reporters to. You could cut those stories after the first paragraph or two and it would make sense. We called it “AP style guide” articles..
There already are quite a few news article summarizers out there, usually quite good at extracting the gist of an article. It can have the occasional error, but then so can the source material so it's all good.
But if authors would do that, people will spend far less time reading the articles and result in far less money for the news outlet.
I've started reading long articles on diagonal unless the article is very interesting or technical. I visually scan fast and try to extract the bits of information.
Maybe it would useful to submit articles to something like GPT-3 and get a meaningful summary in return.