Scalawag (magazine)
Scalawag is an American nonprofit digital magazine focused on Southern politics and culture.[1][2]
Executive Director | Cierra Hinton |
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Former editors | Evan Walker-Wells |
Categories | Politics, society, culture, economics, American south |
Frequency | Quarterly |
Founder | Evan Walker-Wells Sarah Bufkin |
Founded | 2015 |
Country | United States |
Based in | Durham, North Carolina |
Language | English |
Website | scalawagmagazine |
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
- Fausset, Richard (2017-09-05). "In Southern Magazines, Easy Pleasures and Hard Questions". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
- Vitiello, Chris (2015-12-02). "New magazine Scalawag aims to tell the South's untold stories". INDY Week. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
- Schmidt, Christine (2019-11-21). "Five years in, Scalawag is reframing who gets included in "the South" (and how to build a business off it)". NiemanLab. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
- Renkl, Margaret (2018-09-17). "Celebrating Local Journalism". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
- Paynter, Kevon (2018-07-05). "How Issues in the South Affect the Entire Nation". YES! Magazine. Retrieved 2021-05-15.
- Leonard, Sarah (2020-11-25). "Scalawag is the Magazine Remaking Southern Journalism". AJ+. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
- Rogers, Jordan (2015-05-19). "Three Journo-Startups Taking On Traditional Media | WRAL TechWire". WRAL Tech Wire. Retrieved 2021-05-15.
- Hinton, Cierra (2020-07-07). "Why we've decided to end our print magazine—and what we're reimagining instead". Scalawag. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
- Ammons, Jessie (2017-12-01). "Scalawag Magazine". WALTER Magazine. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
- Harrison, Da'Shaun (2023-05-30). "Scalawag welcomes Sherronda J. Brown as Editor-in-Chief". Scalawag. Retrieved 2023-06-14.
- "How a month-long paid break transformed an office and its employees". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
- Lomawaima, K. Tsianina (Spring 2021). "Editors' Introduction: Reflections on the Land-Grab Universities Project". Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association [NAIS]. 8: 89. doi:10.5749/natiindistudj.8.1.0089. S2CID 234110808 – via Gale Academic One File.
- Neither here nor there : the many voices of liminality. Timothy L. Carson. Cambridge. 2019. ISBN 978-0-7188-4787-6. OCLC 1121607729.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link) - Latina outsiders remaking Latina identity. Grisel Acosta. London. 2019. ISBN 978-0-429-40155-8. OCLC 1100588556.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link) - High, Les (2017-12-27). "From the editor: Frustration, tragedy underscore the problems of a broken mental health system – but there is hope". The News Reporter. Retrieved 2021-05-15.
- "The Top 5 Longreads of the Week". Longreads. 2021-05-14. Retrieved 2021-05-15.
- "PEN America Launches Local Heroes: Journalists Covering COVID-19". PEN America. 2020-04-20. Retrieved 2021-05-15.