The Slate Group, legally The Slate Group, LLC, is an American online publishing entity established in June 2008 by
Graham Holdings Company. Among the publications overseen by The Slate Group are ''
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'' and ''
ForeignPolicy.com''.
The creation of The Slate Group was announced by
Donald Graham, the chairman and CEO of The Washington Post Company, in a press release on June 4, 2008. Its mission was stated as developing and managing a family of web-only magazines.
[ The release also announced that Slate Group was expected to work closely with Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive in the areas of advertising sales, technology and marketing services.][
In 2014, The Slate Group had around 121 employees and reported more than 25 million ]unique visitor
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s and more than 120 million page views per month on average.[Graham Holdings]
2014 Annual Report
(availabl
on GHCO.com
Through a share in the French company E2J2 SAS and other support, The Slate Group is involved in the French-language websites ''Slate.fr'' and ''Slate Afrique''.Univision Communications
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in 2015.
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Publishing companies established in 2008
Magazine publishing companies of the United States
Mass media companies of the United States
Podcasting companies
Graham Holdings
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