Washington Post group buys Slate

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Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
Thursday December 23, 2004
The Guardian

It was supposed to be the future of journalism, but yesterday Slate, the online magazine owned by Microsoft, was sold to a rather more traditional publisher, the Washington Post.

Its editor Jacob Weisberg, said: "We just came to the realisation that at this stage in our growth and the development of the magazine, it made sense for us to be at a more traditional media company."

The price is thought to be £8m-£11m.

Slate will keep most of its staff and its editorial independence. To underline the point, it ran a front-page article yesterday attacking a Washington Post piece on the murders of mothers, and Mr Weisberg wrote in an editorial: "Slate is not going to be merged, submerged, bent, folded, spindled or mutilated."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1379010,00.html

[Dover]

1. "Slate is not going to be merged, submerged, bent, folded, spindled or

mutilated".

Well, I hope they got that in writing...

And of course we, the reader, are supposed to buy that?

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2. This news is already a couple of days old

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3. not Late Breaking News, locking

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