Tablet — surely among the longest-running online magazines — is launching a print edition.
Why go into the print biz just as most hard-copy outlets are preparing for a papery grave?
“Over the past 16 years, Tablet has become a refuge for people who felt alienated by news sources they used to depend on,” Tablet Editor-in-Chief Alana Newhouse told Page Six.
“While legacy media was busy ignoring reality, we established a reputation for telling the truth. The Internet, which once promised to deliver a range of ideas as wide as its reach, has only narrowed the conversation so that there isn’t any conversation at all; we can’t even be sure the information on our screens hasn’t been spewed out by a bot.”
She concluded: “We’ve always known that the most radical thing you can do is look to your roots. Now, we’re doing that with our journalism, putting it back on paper, giving it the weight it deserves.”
It’s going to be published monthly and is taking subscriptions now. Tablet launched in 1996 and was at first owned by Microsoft.
The print version is edited by Paris Review alum Lorin Stein and we’re told it will be released June 1.