Oregon Capital Chronicle / Julia Shumway
The New York Times / Marc Tracy
Slate’s top editor leaves after a three-year run →“Mr. Hohlt led Slate’s newsroom during a rocky moment for first- and second-generation online publications. The bet that many of them had made to rely mainly on advertising revenue had essentially failed to pay off.”
The Washington Post / Paul Farhi
Substack / Freddie deBoer
An ode to Choire Sicha →“In addition to the (often very charming) gay men who hated women, in my youth I also knew some who had a remarkable capacity for amused and knowing empathy, who took the experience of being ridiculed and hated and used it to find a broader moral imagination that could encompass a concern for all kinds of human beings. That’s a rare and valuable quality, and one of the few places I find it consistently is in Choire’s writing.”
Financial Times / Anna Nicolaou
Ben Smith and Justin Smith will not “start spitballing with you” on their new venture →But, said Justin Smith: “I think some people on social media missed the point. It’s pretty straightforward, if you do the math. There are 1,200 universities that teach in English outside the UK and US, that graduate 9 million graduates a year into the world. Over the next 10 years there will be exponential growth of the college-educated class globally.”
The New York Times / Katie Robertson