A year later, it had attracted 9,000 subscribers generating about $500,000 in annual revenue. In 2014, Slate introduced a paywall system called "Slate Plus", offering ad-free podcasts and bonus materials. The next year, Slate became profitable after preceding years had seen layoffs and falling ad revenues. Slate launched the "Slate Book Review" in 2012, a monthly books section edited by Dan Kois.
The following year, a dedicated ad sales team was created. At the time, it had around 40 full-time editorial staff. In the same year, the magazine laid off several high-profile journalists, including co-founder Jack Shafer and Timothy Noah (author of the Chatterbox column). Slate was nominated for four digital National Magazine Awards in 2011 and won the NMA for General Excellence. In 2013, the magazine was redesigned under the guidance of design director Vivian Selbo. It introduced Slate V in 2007, an online video magazine with content that relates to or expands upon their written articles. On its 10th anniversary, Slate unveiled a redesigned website. The design of Slate 's homepage from 2006 to 2013 The column also features two Flash animated "Interactive Essays" a month.
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Slate started a daily feature, "Today's Pictures", on November 30, 2005, which featured 15–20 photographs from the archive at Magnum Photos that share a common theme. A similar subscription model was implemented in April 2001 by Slate 's independently owned competitor,. Slate introduced a paywall-based business model in 1998 that attracted up 20,000 subscribers but was later abandoned. "The idea is that every writer and editor on staff has to spend a month or six weeks a year not doing their regular job, but instead working on a long, ambitious project of some sort," Plotz said in an interview. Many of the longer stories are an outgrowth of the "Fresca Fellowships", so-called because former editor Plotz liked the soft drink Fresca. Around 2010, the magazine also began running long-form journalism. Many of the articles are short (less than 2,000 words) and argument-driven. Slate features regular and semi-regular columns such as Explainer, Moneybox, Spectator, Transport, and Dear Prudence. It has a generally liberal editorial stance. It is known, and sometimes criticized, for having adopted contrarian views, giving rise to the term "Slate Pitches". Īs of 2021, the magazine is both ad-supported and has a membership model with a metered paywall. In 2011, started a separate site covering African news, Slate Afrique, with a Paris-based editorial staff. Among them, the founders hold 50 percent in the publishing company, while The Slate Group holds 15 percent. Ī French version,, was launched in February 2009 by a group of four journalists, including Jean-Marie Colombani, Eric Leser, and economist Jacques Attali. As of mid-2015, it publishes about 1,500 stories per month. According to its former editor-in-chief Julia Turner, the magazine is "not fundamentally a breaking news source", but rather aimed at helping readers to "analyze and understand and interpret the world" with witty and entertaining writing. Slate, which is updated throughout the day, covers politics, arts and culture, sports, and news.
Slate is based in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. In 2004, it was purchased by The Washington Post Company (later renamed the Graham Holdings Company), and since 2008 has been managed by The Slate Group, an online publishing entity created by Graham Holdings. It was created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN. Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.
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