Six classic American magazine stories reimagined for the digital age

Earlier this week, a list of some of the best magazine stories of all time bounced its way around Twitter, paying tribute to some of literary journalism’s pioneers, including Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe.

Of course, those kinds of stories — thousands of words meticulously placed after dozens of hours of reporting, eagerly lapped up by a much-less-harried reading public — are fewer and farther between these days (although they certainly still happen.) That got us thinking: What would some of those stories look like if they were written today?