The Washington Examiner has launched a new section on its website to add more in-depth articles in its daily offering to readers.
Called “In Focus,” this new section will concentrate on the biggest political, ideological, and cultural issues facing the nation.
“The idea is to give readers a special location on the website — highlighted at the top of the homepage — where they know they will be able to read the A-to-Z on a subject and deep-dive analyses of important subjects tackled by the Washington Examiner’s top writers,” Editor-in-Chief Hugo Gurdon said.
“Our publication is a thought leader on these vital matters,” he added, “especially for conservatives, and we want to entrench that position so the 25 million unique readers who come to the Washington Examiner website each month can rely on it to cover areas of national debate they need to be well informed about.”
In Focus articles run to twice the length of ordinary news and commentary items, sometimes more, in a journalism landscape that all too often is only briefly interesting but ultimately leaves readers uninformed. By adding In Focus, the Washington Examiner is making sure readers get sufficient details unpacked and explained that they do not have to go searching elsewhere on the web to find the back story and understand the matter thoroughly.
This new section of the Washington Examiner is being added without lessening the publication’s commitment to providing readers with fast-paced reporting so they can keep up never-ceasing news flow. There is no substitute for rapid-response news, but there is plenty more that can be offered, as In Focus demonstrates.
To fulfill this commitment, the Washington Examiner is hiring three new senior writers who will provide a substantial proportion of In Focus articles. The first of these writers, David Harsanyi, has already joined the Washington Examiner, and the other new names will be announced before the end of 2024.
More In Focus articles will be written by an expanded portfolio of freelance writers, many of them from think tanks who are subject experts and who study the relevant data and developments every day.
This is what today’s readers want — to be able to cut through the thicket of trivial, partial, and partisan news reporting and commentary and know their time is not being wasted online. They want top-quality journalism and confidence that they can rely on it being supplied consistently by a news outlet they trust.
While most news articles and quick commentary deliver information or a brief perspective on events of the day, they leave out much context, many implications, and the full range of likely ramifications. In Focus articles expand the horizons of each story to produce a completeness that fills in the gaps and allows readers a clear view of why a story is important and what developments are likely to follow.
Two fresh In Focus features will appear each day on the Washington Examiner website — a regular flow of insight about the issues that matter most to America’s citizens and the nation’s future.
Click here to read the Washington Examiner’s latest In Focus stories.