Farhad Manjoo, write of the Machinist column for Salon.com, has taken a new job with The Washington Post’s Slate.com. This move is the latest in a series of tech writers landing new job opportunities. Alley Insider (June 18, 2008)
The Washington Post plans on launching a new unit that will be responsible for creating and managing a series of Web-based magazines. The unit is called The Slate Group and hopes to develop its own audience through these web magazines and eventually move into other forms of media either on its own or through acquisitions. [...]
Radar covers celebrity offspring’s “Power Brats.” The Weekly Standard looks at overindulged children more broadly. And New York magazine investigates the relationship between breakfast and good health. Online magazine Slate also previews content in the current issues of the Oxford American, The New Yorker and Newsweek. Slate.com (June 3, 2008)
The latest step in Washington-Post-Co.-owned Slate’s expansion is an online business and financial news magazine to compete with sites like The Motley Fool and printed magazines like Portfolio and Forbes. Slate’s new offering will attempt to use wit and irreverence to explain Wall Street and global finance. Reuters (Mar. 18, 2008)
The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine plan a six-hour webcast covering tomorrow’s Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses. Newsweek editor Jon Meacham will anchor and a cavalcade of talking-head stars will weigh in. Editors and contributors from online magazine Slate — which, like Newsweek, is owned by the Washington Post Co. — will also participate. The BBC will [...]
The Washingotn Post Co. plans to launch a new, online-only magazine with a focus on African American-oriented news and commentary. Titled The Root, the online magazine will also provide funtionality to assist users in researching their genealogy. Renowned Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., who will be the first editor, sees The Root as a 21st-century version [...]