'New York Times' Creating Digital Longform Magazine

In a note to colleagues Friday, Jill Abramson, executive editor of the The New York Times, announced that the paper is developing a new, longform digital magazine, under the direction of former national editor Sam Sifton.

Abramson describes the magazine as "an immersive digital magazine experience, a lean back read that will include new, multimedia narratives in the tradition of 'Snow Fall' and last weekend’s compelling account of the Arizona fire, as well as some of the best reads published during the previous week." She says the magazine would be a "need to read," one different from the Times's culture and style-focused Sunday magazine, T.