Following an unprecedented editorial exodus at The New Republic, owner and publisher Chris Hughes is defending his efforts to modernize (and better monetize) the magazine. “I didn’t buy
the New Republic to be the conservator of a small print magazine whose long-term influence and survival were at risk,” Hughes, who bought TNR in 2012, explains in a Washington Post op-ed.
“I came to protect the future of the New Republic by creating a sustainable business so that our journalism, values and voice … could survive.”
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