WHIPPING up good data journalism can involve painful research and number-crunching. The hacks at Delayed Gratification, a quarterly magazine that produces a slower, more reflective type of journalism, have achieved this with striking results
The idea was to provide an antidote to increasingly speedy “fast” media by
producing a beautiful print publication which looks back every quarter on the
events of the preceding three months and revisits them with the benefit of
hindsight. We’re interested in the final analysis not the knee-jerk reaction,
and pride ourselves on being “Last to Breaking News”. We also pick up on a lot
of quirky stories the rest of the media missed, and publish a lot of beautiful
infographics which bring out new patterns in three months’ worth of data.
Ultimately, you can see Delayed Gratification as either a very slow magazine—or
a very fast history book.
