The New Republic Sold

NEW REPUBLIC SOLD! pic.twitter.com/VXhp7dChkD

— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) February 26, 2016

The New Republic For Sale--Again

Chris Hughes explains why he's selling it.

A Vox article from 2014 when the magazine was first up for sale, with a 2016 update.

Snark aside: TNR has some wonderful writers who I hope will be fine despite the idiocy of Chris Hughes and Guy Vidra.

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) January 11, 2016

Imagine if Chris Hughes had spent the last few yrs handing out $20M in cash to people on the street & left TNR alone https://t.co/1jQzJoC9kN

— Elissa Goldstein (@Book_Moth) January 11, 2016

TNR was bound to fail with its strident focus on identity. How many Vox like media outlets can a country support?

— EdAsante (@EdAsante77) January 11, 2016

oh god we're going to get a whole new round of old white men giving us hot TNR takes, aren't we?

— Kevin Robillard (@PoliticoKevin) January 11, 2016

R. I .P. , Gilles d'Aymery

Gilles d'Aymery, founder of Swans.com, has died, I have just found out. I hope Swans can continue to be published. It was one of the most original webzines I've read. And I've donated money to them from time to time, not necessarily because I agreed with everything written there, but because of the quality of its content and because Gilles was totally upfront about how donations were used. The yearly budget was roughly $4,000, less than some magazines spend on snacks. A breakdown of expenses is below.

"You send us money. Here, in total transparency, is how it is spent:
•Internet access and costs: Web, satellite, land-line access, TV: $1,900 a year
•Hardware/software maintenance and upgrades: $1,000 a year
•Press and book purchases: $1,000 a year
•Miscellaneous: $450 a year
•This is a very conservative accounting of our overall costs."

Slate, "The Slatest: Your News Companion," "Mass Resignations at TNR Follow Departures of Foer, Wieseltier" by Ben Mathis-Lilley.

Gawker: "White Men Upset Wrong White Man Placed in Charge...", by Leah Finnegan.

National Catholic Reporter, "Distinctly Catholic" blog, "RIP: The New Republic", by Michael Sean Winters (5 Dec. 2014)

What will John MacArthur make of this?

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12 December 2014 update: A USA Today article on the future of newsweeklies.

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14 December update: I just found

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Important to Read

The Nation: Is a Defense Contractor to Blame for Girls' Brain Cancer?"

The Nation is not a perfect magazine, but it does important work by publishing articles such as this.

Trouble at The American Conservative

This article details the conflict between the publisher and editor of The American Conservative. The magazine, founded in 2002, has never been a moneymaker (true of almost all journals of opinion). It has an amazingly high cover price (about $10 an issue!) and subscription price.

NYRB Founding Editor Robert Silvers

An interview with Robert Silvers, the founding editor of The New York Review of Books, which has just had its fiftieth anniversary.

The New Leader was around for eight decades, approaching nine, if one counts its online version.