What happened to Longform.org? (part 2): Sponsored content

Back in December I asked “What happened to Longform.org?”, a longish complaint about the changing course of my favorite curator of long-form journalism. Although I concluded that post with the tepid threat that “maybe it’s time for me to find a new curator,” I confess I never actually turned my back on Longform, the premier aggregate of long digital content on the Web. Although a few other long-form journalism aggregators have sprung up in Longform’s jostling wake (most notably, Longreads), n...