The Slate Group
American online publishing entity
The Slate Group , legally The Slate Group, LLC , is an American online publishing entity established in June 2008 by Graham Holdings Company . Among the publications overseen by The Slate Group are Slate and ForeignPolicy.com . [1]
The creation of The Slate Group was announced by Donald Graham , the chairman and CEO of The Washington Post Company, in a press release on June 4, 2008. [2] Its mission was stated as developing and managing a family of web-only magazines. [1] The release also announced that Slate Group was expected to work closely with Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive in the areas of advertising sales, technology and marketing services. [1]
In 2014, The Slate Group had around 121 employees and reported more than 25 million unique visitors and more than 120 million page views per month on average. [3]
Through a share in the French company E2J2 SAS and other support, The Slate Group is involved in the French-language websites Slate.fr and Slate Afrique . [3] The Root , an online magazine focusing on African American culture, used to be held by The Slate Group until Graham Holdings sold it to Univision Communications in 2015. [4]
References
- 1 2 3 "The Washington Post Company Announces The Slate Group" . The Washington Post press release . 2008-06-04. Archived from the original on 2014-08-30 . Retrieved 2015-08-08 – via Reuters/Business Wire.
- ↑ Patrick W. Gavin (2008-06-04). "Plotz Named Editor of Slate" . Mediabistro . Retrieved 2008-06-05 .
- 1 2 Graham Holdings: 2014 Annual Report (available on GHCO.com )
- ↑ Bond, Shannon (2015-05-21). "Univision buys African-American news site The Root" . Financial Times . ISSN 0307-1766 . Retrieved 2015-05-24 .
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