On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 7:18:26 PM UTC-5, Fred Smith wrote:
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."

With digital publishing now, words per page are all over the place. So we're back to counting words -- or letting MS Word count words.

--
Ed Huntress