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In , the magazine was redesigned under the guidance of Design Director Vivian Selbo. 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. The next year, Slate became profitable after preceding years had seen layoffs and falling ad revenues.

In , Slate introduced a paywall system called "Slate Plus," offering ad-free podcasts and bonus materials. Slate moved all content behind a metered paywall for international readers in June , explaining "our U.

The end result is that, outside the United States, we are not covering our costs. Slate's articles have presented news and opinions from a liberal perspective, eventually evolving into a self-proclaimed liberal news site. However, the website claims that writers use factual evidence to back up their claims. Since , [13] Slate has been known for publishing contrarian pieces arguing against commonly held views about a subject, giving rise to the slatepitches Twitter hashtag in In , Slate ' s editor-in-chief Julia Turner acknowledged a reputation for counterintuitive arguments forms part of Slate 's "distinctive" brand, but argued that the hashtag misrepresents the site's journalism.

But journalism is more interesting when it surprises you either with the conclusions that it reaches or the ways that it reaches them. According to NiemanLab, Slate has been involved in podcasts "almost from the very beginning" of the medium.

Slate podcasts have gotten longer over the years. The original Gabfest ran 15 minutes; by , most ran about 45 minutes. Ultimate Pop Culture Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Recently Changed Pages Syfy S. Explore Wikis Community Central.

Register Don't have an account? Slate magazine. Edit source History Talk 0. Slate px px Type of site. List of languages. See also: Panoply Media. Alexa Internet. At least there are no frames. The use of hypertext is very conservative with no use of embedded links in the body text. Most articles end with a small set of selected links to background materials or contrasting views but there is no attempt at non-linear writing within the magazine itself.

A useful set of links is provided in a column called "in other Magazines" that surveys major stories in other magazines and includes links to any online versions. This column is also one of the few examples of innovative uses of the online medium in Slate : comments on other magazines obviously become much more interesting when the target is a click away from the commentary. Also, Slate takes advantage of its immediate distribution to provide previews of these other magazines before they reach their subscribers.

There are two other uses of the online medium where Slate shows promise compared to traditional magazines: the first is multimedia which is used in very appropriate ways to enrich the stories.

No spinning GIF89a's bravo , but a clip from an Ella Fitzgerald song in her obituary and a video clip of a Republican anti-Clinton commercial in a very good column analyzing political advertising. The analysis of the anti-Clinton commercial gains significantly from the user's ability to actually see the video and observe the pacing, tone of voice, etc.

As we all know, movement, color, and tone of voice have much more emotional appeal than the actual words, so deconstructions of political campaigns need multimedia. The second good use of the online medium is the so-called "committee of correspondence". This is a too-long 40 screenfulls on a medium-size screen scrolling debate between five pre-selected participants. The topic of the debate in the premiere issue is "Is Microsoft Evil? The debate format is innovative in allowing the participants to post new arguments daily throughout a week.

By restricting follow-ups to once-daily and by having a select group of contributors, the editors avoid flaming and encourage reasoned writing. Even so, the actual quality of the writing is not on the superb level one would expect from an elite magazine. Sure, we are a level beyond netnews threads, but not several levels up. There are not many new arguments relating to Microsoft's possible evilness in the Slate discussion that have not been seen many times in various comp.

Maybe the topic has been beaten to death on the Internet already and we will see better results in future Slate debates. One benefit of the slow turn-around and selective list of participants is that rebuttals tend to be more credible and researched than the typical netnews comment.

At the same time, when Ballmer tried to minimize the anti-trust issue, there was a rebuttal by an anti-trust lawyer who quoted the actual Department of Justice court papers. As I said, better than your average flame and a level up from netnews, but no new insights. Now turning to the design of Slate 's website, I sincerely doubt that they have conducted much usability testing since several of their design elements are likely to cause usability problems according to my studies of other websites.

The first and most obvious is the use of two home pages which is often confusing to users. The initial home page contains an abbreviated list of the main feature stories and a small subtle link to a fuller table of contents.

Following this link leads the user to a larger home page that cannot be seen on a single screen due to its very spacious layout. In fact, it requires screens to see the full list and some of the main stories are not visible in the first window. The table of contents uses several "cute" headlines to link to stories example: "Varnish Remover" is the link to the analysis of campaign commercials.

On the Web, cute links normally don't work since users rarely take the time to download stuff they don't know what is. In print, playful headlines work because the reader can easily glance around the magazine to see what the story is about. Check out our Media Bias Chart, or see how we have rated the most popular news sources. In September , AllSides conducted an editorial review of Slate. We decided to move Slate's bias from a Lean Left to Left.

The AllSides team found that Slate never includes a Right-leaning perspective on its website, making it unbalanced. Opinion pieces on Slate are often labeled news , making it unclear to readers what is fact and what is opinion. In its news reporting, Slate often uses subjective and emotional words.

At the time of review on Sept. For example, that day a piece on the site claimed that the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination is "a matter of life and death" for women — a subjective statement.

Another piece claimed the Trump administration was "ignoring" rules against indefinite detention of undocumented children, when in reality the administration released documents proposing to amend them. Another Slate piece labeled "news" opened , " Donald Trump, who is somehow the president, did an interview On average, those who disagreed rated Slate as Left. According to Wikipedia , Slate is an "online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States from a liberal perspective.

Slate is a United States-based, English language online current affairs and culture magazine created in by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN. On 21 December it was purchased by the Washington Post Company. Since 4 June Slate has been managed by The Slate Group, an online publishing entity created by the Washington Post Company to develop and manage web-only magazines.

While it's true ownership and financial interests can affect what goes to print, our bias ratings are determined by assessing the bias of content only. We provide financial and ownership information as an FYI to our readers. Slate is owned by the Graham Holdings Company.

Financing and ownership information last updated February 22, If you think this information is out of date or needs to be updated, please contact us. See full list. Fischer , Theodore R. Hasen , David R. Goldstein , Alyssa Barna , Kyle C. Barry , Rebecca Onion , Christopher R. Boutrous Jr , Peter M.