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Fred Smith[_3_]

On 2017-01-17, wrote:

Articles are getting shorter. When I started writing, in the
mid-70s, a typical feature was 2,200 - 2,500 words. I wrote some
special reports that ran over 7,000.

Before I retired a few months ago, we were down to 1,200 - 1,500
words for a feature story.

The favoured thing in the Public (ie Civil) Service here is the
"two-pager."