It's Shorthand for good content design

Shorthand is ideally suited to visual stories where you have a good number of images and/or embeds or video to include.
It is well-suited to long-form stories, where you wish to keep the readers' attention longer than usual.
It can help to differentiate particularly important or intriguing stories from others on your website - and for this reason, it could be used as a premium content tool, perhaps for subscribers.
It can also be used to showcase stories about awards you've organised, giving them special treatment.
It is less suited to breaking news, or very time-sensitive news stories, as it can take some time to prepare, post or update shorthand stories.
And it doesn't work well for stories with strong accompanying imagery.

As a web-based service, it is easy for users to log into from anywhere. Content can easily be shared, as you can set up teams that enable access to each other's work as required. And content can be reviewed by others before publication using the sharing function. You can also view how an article will look on different devices.

I have never known it to be down during my use of it. All you require is an internet connection to log in and you can use it on multiple devices. Adding ease of accessibility, there are simple ways to log in. I've also never known a Shorthand story to go down once live on our site.

Due to the integration with our content management software, there is a short delay on our site while it loads, which may cause some readers to drift away. However, I've seen other sites where it instantly loads articles, so I believe this to be down to the content management software behind our site more than Shorthand itself. Once that brief initial period is over, it doesn't require additional loading time.