text: The four weekly events an op-ed in the style of the New York Times ( 750 words or thereabouts ) ; a New Yorker Talk of the Town piece ( 750 words or thereabouts ) ; the first 1,000 words of a Vanity Fair profile ; and a breaking news story ( 750 words or thereabouts ) .
  
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  The NY Times style op-ed should be roughly the same word count as the Vanity Fair profile .