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Slate is a website offering analysis and commentary about politics, news and culture. The site was created in 1996 by Michael Kinsley, who had been the editor of The New Republic.
Slate was initially owned by Microsoft Corporation as part of MSN. The Washington Post Company bought Slate on December 21, 2004. In October 2013, the Washington Post newspaper group was sold to Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Slate is now part of Graham Holdings Company.
Slate is supported by advertising and subscriptions today. In March 1998, it began charging a $19.95 annual subscription fee, but this business model was unsuccessful and the site returned to free, ad-supported access in February 1999. In March 2020, Slate again introduced a metered paywall and subscription fee.
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Hillary Frey Named Slate Editor-in-Chief Jared Hohlt Named Slate Editor-in-Chief Slate Names Matt Turck Publisher
Laura Helmuth becomes science editor at Slate, effective June 2012. She previously served as senior editor at Smithsonian magazine. Have Podcasts Become a Thing of the Past?
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-- Hillary Frey will replace Jared Hohlt, who left the site in January. Currently at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, Frey previously worked as executive editor at HuffPost and Fusion. She will start work on June 6.
Sara Fischer wrote at Axios on May 11, 2022:
Slate taps Hillary Frey as new editor-in-chief
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, May 27, 2022
-- On April 1, 2019, Jared Hohlt, 47, took over as the editor-in-chief of Slate. Hohlt joins Slate from New York magazine, where he worked for 18 years. He replaces Julia Turner, who became the deputy managing editor of The Los Angeles Times last October.
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, April 15, 2019
-- Turck replaces John Alderman, who becomes COO of SocialCode, a social marketing solutions provider which, like Slate, is owned by the Washington Post Company.
Jacob Weisberg, chairman and editor in chief of the Slate Group, announced the appointments on August 27, 2012.
"Alderman and Turck are two of the best in the business," said Weisberg. "While I'm saddened by John's...
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder Colorado USA, July 2, 2012
-- The New York Times stopped producing podcasts in December 2011. Not long after, Boston Globe editor Marty Barron posted on Twitter, "We dropped podcast years ago. Big time commitment, little gain."
The folks at Slate apparently don't agree, however, as downloads of its podcasts have nearly doubled since 2010.
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