By Fiona Lowenstein Contently, a self-described "storytelling platform," launched an investigative reporting publication Wednesday along with a center that the three-year-old outlet plans to use to train young journalists in longform. Called Contently.org and the Contently Foundation, these new initiatives seek to offer freelance journalists alternatives to, as its founders put it, "exploitative media, like content farms." Contently's most recent mission statement...
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