The Slate Group
The Slate Group,legallyThe Slate Group, LLC,is an American online publishing entity established in June 2008 byGraham Holdings Company.Among the publications overseen by The Slate Group areSlateandForeignPolicy.[1]
The creation of The Slate Group was announced byDonald 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 withWashingtonpost.Newsweek Interactivein the areas of advertising sales, technology and marketing services.[1]
In 2014, The Slate Group had around 121 employees and reported more than 25 millionunique visitorsand 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 websitesSlate.frandSlate 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 toUnivision Communicationsin 2015.[4]
References
[edit]- ^abc"The Washington Post Company Announces The Slate Group".The Washington Postpress release.2008-06-04. Archived fromthe originalon 2014-08-30.Retrieved2015-08-08– via Reuters/Business Wire.
- ^Patrick W. Gavin (2008-06-04)."Plotz Named Editor of Slate".Mediabistro.Retrieved2008-06-05.
- ^abGraham Holdings:2014 Annual Report(availableon GHCO)
- ^Bond, Shannon (2015-05-21)."Univision buys African-American news site The Root".Financial Times.ISSN0307-1766.Retrieved2015-05-24.
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