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New Editor Of 'New Republic' -- And Facebook Co-Founder -- Sees Viability Of Print
- Adweek, Tuesday, May 22, 2012 3:47 PM
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes sees a "hunger out there for big-idea journalism" that he aims to fulfill now that he's editor in chief and publisher of The New Republic. "My goal for the publication is to be the magazine New York and D.C. and L.A. people read on the weekends," he tells Lucia Moses. "It’s sort of for the crème de la crème."
As a member of digital royalty, so to speak, now moving to the "old-media establishment," Hughes defends print, noting, "as a technology [it's] pretty amazing—it’s light, disposable, you can share it easily, it’s colorful. I read more in print than online."
