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Slate To Add More Reflexively Contrarian Brands

Jacob Weisberg is stepping aside as the editor of Slate... OR IS HE? Technically, sure, he's ceding the reins after six years to deputy David Plotz, but if Slate has taught us anything, it is to question blatantly-obvious facts just for the hell of it. And if one does that, one discovers Weisberg isn't stepping down at all, he's stepping up, to run something terrifying called the Slate Group, which will be in charge of Slate and various spinoffs, including a new business site called The Big Money. Weisberg compares Slate Group to Time Inc., which of course has not only the flagship newsmagazines but also celebrity, business and sports titles, as well. It might seem natural for these new spinoffs to be, say, blogs, but of course Slate Group isn't using that word, because it's too popular. Instead the site is looking at launching "tools or news aggregators." [Times]

8:45 AM on Thu Jun 5 2008
By Ryan Tate
300 views, 8 comments

Latest by pocketnovel: Slate launching tools. Now there's something new. more »

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'Slate' Continues to Out-Slate Self

Gas... is cheap! An economist on how expensive cigarettes make smokers happy! Ugly people: are they actually pretty? Plus: Chris Hitchens on how George W. Bush was a better president than Lincoln! Tomorrow: Are you hungry? No you're not! [Slate]

5:22 PM on Mon May 19 2008
By Pareene
2,121 views, 17 comments

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America's Ten Best Magazines

If you're in the magazine publishing business, you care deeply about these numbers, nominations for the National Magazine Awards. No great surprises. The New Yorker still leads. Adam Moss' New York is the comer. Virginia Quarterly Review: is it really good, or do they just have some editor who's mastered the politics of ASME, the association which hands out the prizes (like the creepy Pulitzer-chasing editor in David Simon's HBO show, The Wire). Outside the top ten, Maer Roshan's Radar and Joanne Lipman's Portfolio squeeze in with one nomination each. As Jeff Bercovici says, they are now officially as good as once-reputed Esquire magazine, which only gets one nomination. (After the jump, the full list.) More »

12:52 PM on Wed Mar 19 2008
By Nick Denton
6,855 views, 58 comments

Latest by n/a: Go Time Out Chicago! Midwest represent! Woo-hoo! (Sorry, someone had to point that out.) more »

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The Dismal Pop-Science

Slate's pop-economist (every important media outlet is required to have a pop-economist who misuses the analytical tools of his inexact science to "prove" unlikely and surprising things each week) explains that housing foreclosures are good because after people are kicked out of their homes, other people get to move into those homes. Relevant excerpt: "I could use economics to explain why those readers are mistaken (a glut of homes on the market leads to falling prices, etc.), but that's unnecessarily complicated." [Slate]

1:27 PM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Pareene
379 views, 9 comments

Latest by suzyO: whoa ... the man phones it in with a twat-o-meter. you know what else is good? cancer. when one man dies, more popsicles for me. more »