How ‘The Washington Post’ Acquisition Has Impacted ‘Slate’

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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