After The Washington Post Company announced that it had agreed to sell its flagship publication to Jeff Bezos, some wondered why the founder of Amazon didn’t also made a play to buy the company’s digital-first publication, Slate. As it turns out, the web magazine was never under consideration
“There wasn’t [any conversation],” Slate chairman and editor in chief Jacob Weisberg told Mashable, in response to a question about whether talks took place with his team about buying the publication. “I think basically we are not the problemSlate is working as a business.”
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