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''Slate'' is an English-language online current affairs and culture magazine in the United States created in 1996 by former ''New Republic'' editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN. On 21 December 2004, it was purchased by The Washington Post Company. Since 4 June 2008, ''Slate'' has been managed by The Slate Group, an online publishing entity created by the Graham Holdings Company to develop and manage web-only magazines. Slate is based in New York City, with an additional office in Washington DC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=8200230 )〕 A French version ''(slate.fr)'' was launched in February 2009 by a group of four journalists, including Jean-Marie Colombani, Eric Leser, and economist Jacques Attali. Among them, the founders hold 50% in the publishing company, while The Slate Group holds 15%. In 2011, ''slate.fr'' started a separate site covering African news, ''Slate Afrique'', with a Paris-based editorial staff. In July 2014, Julia Turner replaced David Plotz who had been editor of ''Slate'' since 2008. Plotz had been the deputy editor to Jacob Weisberg, ''Slate's'' editor from 2002 until his designation as the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of The Slate Group. The Washington Post Company's John Alderman is ''Slate''s publisher. ''Slate'' (), which is updated daily, covers politics, arts and culture, sports, and news. According to Turner, the magazine is "not fundamentally a breaking news source", but rather aimed at helping readers to "analyze and understand and interpret the world" with witty and entertaining writing. As of mid-2015, it publishes about 1500 stories per month.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= https://secure.slate.com/unlimited )〕 ''Slate'' is known (and sometimes criticized) for adopting contrarian positions, giving rise to the term "Slate Pitches". It is ad-supported and has been available to read free of charge since 1999, but restricted access for non-US readers via a metered paywall in 2015. ==Background== ''Slate'' features regular and semi-regular columns such as Explainer, Moneybox, Spectator, Transport, and Dear Prudence. Many of the articles are short (under 2,000 words) and argument-driven. Around 2010, the magazine also began running long-form journalism. Many of the longer stories are an outgrowth of the "Fresca Fellowships", so-called because former editor Plotz liked the soft drink Fresca. "The idea is that every writer and editor on staff has to spend a month or six weeks a year not doing their regular job, but instead working on a long, ambitious project of some sort," Plotz said in an interview. In 1998, ''Slate'' introduced a paywall-based business model that attracted up 20,000 subscribers but was abandoned afterwards. A similar subscription model would later be implemented by ''Slate''s independently owned competitor, Salon.com, in April 2001. On November 30, 2005, ''Slate'' started a daily feature ”Today's Pictures”, featuring fifteen to twenty photographs from the archive at Magnum Photos that share a common theme. The column also features two flash animated ”Interactive Essays” a month. In June 2006, on its tenth anniversary, ''Slate'' unveiled a redesigned website. In 2007, it introduced "Slate V",〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Home )〕 an online video magazine with content that relates to or expands upon their written articles. In 2013, the magazine was redesigned under the guidance of Design Director Vivian Selbo. In 2011, ''Slate'' was nominated for four digital National Magazine Awards and won the NMA for General Excellence. In the same year, the magazine laid off several high-profile journalists, including co-founder Jack Shafer and Timothy Noah (author of the "Chatterbox" column). At the time, it had around 40 full-time editorial staff.〔 The following year, a dedicated ad sales team was created. In 2012, ''Slate'' launched the Slate Book Review, a monthly books section edited by Dan Kois. In 2013, ''Slate'' became profitable after preceding years had seen layoffs and falling ad revenues.〔 In 2014, ''Slate'' introduced a paywall system called "Slate Plus" offering ad-free podcasts as well as some bonus materials. A year later, it had attracted 9,000 subscribers generating about $500,000 in annual revenue.〔 In June 2015, ''Slate'' started moving all content behind a metered paywall for international readers, explaining that "our U.S.-based sales team sells primarily to domestic advertisers, many of whom only want to reach a domestic audience. ...The end result is that, outside the United States, we are not covering our costs." At the same time, it was stated that there were no plans for a domestic paywall.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Slate (magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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