Reason (magazine)

Reason

October 2012 issue of Reason
Editor-in-Chief Matt Welch
Categories general interest, public policy
Frequency 11 issues annually
Circulation 50,000
First issue 1968
Company Reason Foundation
Country United States
Language English
Website reason.com
ISSN 0048-6906

Reason is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation.[1] The magazine has a circulation of around 50,000[2] and was named one of the 50 best magazines in 2003 and 2004 by the Chicago Tribune.[3][4]

History

Reason was founded in 1968 by Lanny Friedlander (1947–2011)[2][5] as a more-or-less monthly mimeographed publication. In 1970 it was purchased by Robert W. Poole, Jr., Manuel S. Klausner, and Tibor R. Machan, who set it on a more regular publishing schedule.[5] As the monthly print magazine of "free minds and free markets", it covers politics, culture, and ideas with a mix of news, analysis, commentary, and reviews.

During the 1970s, the magazine's contributors included Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Thomas Szasz and Thomas Sowell.[6]

In 1978, Poole, Klausner, and Machan created the associated Reason Foundation, in order to expand the magazine's ideas into policy research.[5]

Current incarnation

Matt Welch has been the magazine's editor in chief since 2008. Katherine Mangu-Ward is the managing editor. Other Reason editors include Jacob Sullum, Jesse Walker, Brian Doherty, Peter Suderman, and Damon Root; contributors include Ronald Bailey, Greg Beato, Cathy Young, and cartoonist Peter Bagge. Former editors in chief are Nick Gillespie, Marty Zupan, and Virginia Postrel.

Erik Spiekermann, the designer of the Meta typeface, headed a redesign of Reason in 2001, aiming for a look that is "cleaner, more modern, making use of the Meta typeface throughout".

In June 2004, subscribers to Reason magazine received a personalized issue that had their name, and a satellite photo of their home or workplace on the cover. The concept was to demonstrate the power of public databases, as well as the customized printing capabilities of Xeikon's printer, according to then editor-in-chief Nick Gillespie.[7] The move was seen by David Carr of The New York Times as "the ultimate in customized publishing", as well as "a remarkable demonstration of the growing number of ways databases can be harnessed."[7]

In 2008, Reason's web site[8] was named a Webby Award Honoree in the magazine category.[9]

In 2011, Gillespie and Welch published The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America.[10]

Hit & Run

Hit & Run is Reason's group blog. It is maintained and written by the staff of the magazine. It was started in 2002. Then-editor Gillespie and then-Web editor Tim Cavanaugh, both veterans of Suck.com, modeled the blog in some ways after that website: they brought along several other Suck.com writers to contribute, fostered a style in the blog matching that former website's sarcastic attitude, and even the name "Hit & Run" was taken from what had been a weekly news roundup column on Suck.com. Reason editors referred to this co-opting of the former website as the "Suck-ification of Reason."[11]

In 2005, Hit & Run was named as one of the best political blogs by Playboy.[12]

Reason TV

Reason TV is a website affiliated with Reason magazine that produces short-form documentaries and video editorials. Nick Gillespie is editor-in-chief. The site produced a series of videos called The Drew Carey Project hosted by comedian Drew Carey.[13] Reason.tv teamed with Carey again in 2009 to produce "Reason Saves Cleveland," in which Carey suggested free market solutions to his hometown's problems.[14]

Since 2010, comedian Remy Munasifi has partnered with Reason TV to produce parody videos.[15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Reason Foundation - About the Reason Foundation". Reason.org. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
  2. 1 2 "The New York Times . Lanny Friedlander, Founder of Reason Magazine, Dies at 63". NYT. Retrieved October 15, 2012.
  3. ↑ "The 50 Best Magazines". Chicago Tribune. June 12, 2003.
  4. ↑ "50 best magazines". Chicago Tribune. June 17, 2004.
  5. 1 2 3 Burns, Jennifer (2009). Goddess of the market: Ayn Rand and the American Right. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 328. ISBN 978-0-19-532487-7.
  6. ↑ Williams, Walter E. (June 18, 1983). "Bringing Reason to the People". The Afro-American. p. 5.
  7. 1 2 Carr, David (April 5, 2004). "Putting 40,000 Readers, One by One, on a Cover". The New York Times. Retrieved October 20, 2010.
  8. ↑ reason.com
  9. ↑ "Webby Honorees". Webbyawards.com. Retrieved June 18, 2009.
  10. ↑ "The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America". Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  11. ↑ Cotts, Cynthia (January 21, 2003). "A Marriage Made Online: How 'Reason' Came to 'Suck'". The Village Voice.
  12. ↑ "Top 10 Political Blogs". Playboy. November 2006.
  13. ↑ "About Reason.tv". Retrieved July 27, 2013.
  14. ↑ "Reason Foundation on Reason Saves Cleveland". Retrieved October 20, 2010.
  15. ↑ McDonough, Megan (August 7, 2013). "Remy Munasifi: From ‘Arlington Rap’ to opening for Ron Paul". Washington Post. Retrieved 27 December 2015.

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