This is a laudable idea, and I do dislike the focus on "breaking news" (which can apparently be anything currently happening). But, news sites have moved that direction because it works. I don't foresee many people collectively deciding to focus on one story for 3 days. We already have ways to dive into a subject when we are interested in it, and, collectively we just don't have the attention span to focus on a single topic. I think this would have to be funded by a nonprofit or a government grant.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 15.7 ms ] threadhttp://www.niemanlab.org/2013/01/lara-setrakian-single-story... http://www.syriadeeply.org/ http://www.arcticdeeply.org/
Some research of the topic: http://towcenter.org/research/seeking-the-single-subject-new...
And another piece of journalism that could be explored and investigated as repercussions in other areas. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-06/u-s-sided-...