Washington Monthly Magazine

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 1:43pm on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

The Washington Monthly has turned 40, and the Columbia Journalism Review likes what it sees:

"One thing the Washington Monthly has been famous for is its legion of alumni. The low pay-scale practically dictates that its young editors don’t work there for long before striking out for more high profile and higher paying gigs, a path trod by Katherine Boo, James Fallows, and Jon Meacham, among many others.

New Yorker writer Nicholas Lemann is another in the group. (He is also the dean of Columbia’s Journalism School, whose remit includes CJR.) According to Monthly editor Mariah Blake (herself a CJR alum) Lemann helped persuade his old Harvard roommate, Jeffrey Leonard, whose Global Environment Fund manages over one billion dollars of investments in renewable energy and other environmental ventures, of the magazine’s value and potential viability. In the fall of 2008, Leonard stepped up with a one million dollar matching grant, on the condition that the Monthly remake itself with a new nonprofit business model. Leonard now chairs the magazine’s board."

The full story:
http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/the_washington_monthly_40_year.php