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World's Most Popular Publisher of Shortreads Buys Longreads

The company behind Wordpress bought the popular longform journalism app. Here's why.
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The company that owns WordPress, the world's most popular blogging system, has acquired Longreads, which curates longform writing, as part of a public mea culpa for enabling an era of journalism comprised of posts just like this one.