The Slate Group

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The Slate Group, legally The Slate Group, LLC, is an American online publishing entity established in June 2008 by

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.

References

  1. ^ a b c "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.
  2. ^ Patrick W. Gavin (2008-06-04). "Plotz Named Editor of Slate". Mediabistro. Retrieved 2008-06-05.
  3. ^ a b Graham Holdings: 2014 Annual Report (available on GHCO.com)
  4. ISSN 0307-1766
    . Retrieved 2015-05-24.