Scalawag (magazine)

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Scalawag
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Executive DirectorCierra Hinton
Former editorsEvan Walker-Wells
CategoriesPolitics, society, culture, economics, American south
FrequencyQuarterly
FounderEvan Walker-Wells
Sarah Bufkin
Founded2015
CountryUnited States
Based in Durham, North Carolina
LanguageEnglish
Website scalawagmagazine.org

Scalawag is an American nonprofit digital magazine focused on Southern politics and culture. [1] [2]

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History

Founded in 2015 in Durham, Scalawag was launched through a Kickstarter that raised over $31,000. [3] The magazine is a left-wing, [1] progressive [4] outlet targeting southern audiences and documenting a range of issues with "movement journalism." [5] [6] Although it started primarily with volunteer labor and approximately 250 freelance writers and photographer, in 2018 the organization shifted to a membership model and offered events in order to become sustainable. [3] [7] In 2020, the magazine announced it had made the financial decision to end its print operations. [8]

The co-founders include Evan Walker-Wells and Sarah Bufkin. [2] Cierra Hinton is the executive director as of fall 2018. [3] [9] Sherronda J. Brown is the magazine's editor-in-chief as of March 2023. [10] In 2022 the organization went on hiatus for 30 days of paid leave for the entire staff. [11]

Scalawag's work has been cited in journals, [12] books, [13] [14] and news outlets [15] including Longreads, [16] PEN America, [17] Yes!, [5] AJ+, [6] and the New York Times. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Fausset, Richard (September 5, 2017). "In Southern Magazines, Easy Pleasures and Hard Questions". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved May 13, 2021.
  2. 1 2 Vitiello, Chris (December 2, 2015). "New magazine Scalawag aims to tell the South's untold stories". INDY Week. Retrieved May 13, 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 Schmidt, Christine (November 21, 2019). "Five years in, Scalawag is reframing who gets included in "the South" (and how to build a business off it)". NiemanLab. Retrieved May 13, 2021.
  4. ↑ Renkl, Margaret (September 17, 2018). "Celebrating Local Journalism". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved May 13, 2021.
  5. 1 2 Paynter, Kevon (July 5, 2018). "How Issues in the South Affect the Entire Nation". YES! Magazine. Retrieved May 15, 2021.
  6. 1 2 Leonard, Sarah (November 25, 2020). "Scalawag is the Magazine Remaking Southern Journalism". AJ+. Retrieved May 13, 2021.
  7. ↑ Rogers, Jordan (May 19, 2015). "Three Journo-Startups Taking On Traditional Media | WRAL TechWire". WRAL Tech Wire. Retrieved May 15, 2021.
  8. ↑ Hinton, Cierra (July 7, 2020). "Why we've decided to end our print magazine—and what we're reimagining instead". Scalawag. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
  9. ↑ Ammons, Jessie (December 1, 2017). "Scalawag Magazine". WALTER Magazine. Retrieved May 13, 2021.
  10. ↑ Harrison, Da'Shaun (May 30, 2023). "Scalawag welcomes Sherronda J. Brown as Editor-in-Chief". Scalawag. Retrieved June 14, 2023.
  11. ↑ "How a month-long paid break transformed an office and its employees". www.wbur.org. March 4, 2022. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  12. ↑ Lomawaima, K. Tsianina (Spring 2021). "Editors' Introduction: Reflections on the Land-Grab Universities Project" . Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. 8: 89. doi:10.5749/natiindistudj.8.1.0089. S2CID   234110808 – via Gale Academic One File.
  13. ↑ Neither here nor there : the many voices of liminality. Timothy L. Carson. Cambridge. 2019. ISBN   978-0-7188-4787-6. OCLC   1121607729.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  14. ↑ Latina outsiders remaking Latina identity. Grisel Acosta. London. 2019. ISBN   978-0-429-40155-8. OCLC   1100588556.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  15. ↑ High, Les (December 27, 2017). "From the editor: Frustration, tragedy underscore the problems of a broken mental health system – but there is hope". The News Reporter. Retrieved May 15, 2021.
  16. ↑ "The Top 5 Longreads of the Week". Longreads. May 14, 2021. Retrieved May 15, 2021.
  17. ↑ "PEN America Launches Local Heroes: Journalists Covering COVID-19". PEN America. April 20, 2020. Retrieved May 15, 2021.


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