Why Chat magazine and Marie Claire are going into the TV business

The vogue for long-form true crime series, such as Netflix’s Making a Murderer, HBO’s The Jinx and public radio podcast Serial, points to a new way for the traditional print industry to make money.
There are magazines that have specialised in this sort of material for decades. By taking some of those stories and characters off the page and filming them as immersive multi-episode sagas, news businesses can be attractive content producers for broadcasters.
Time Inc’s UK division,