The latest New York Times Magazine is a 40,000-word, grant-funded book – Poynter

The latest New York Times Magazine is a 40,000-word, grant-funded book – Poynter

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via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2016/the-latest-new-york-times-magazine-is-a-40000-word-grant-funded-book/426028/

Not long after Jake Silverstein was named editor of The New York Times Magazine in 2014, he had a dinnertime conversation with writer Scott Anderson and photographer Paolo Pellegrin, two longtime contributors to the magazine.

The subject? “A big, epic project,” timed to the fifth anniversary of the Arab Spring, that would take over the entirety of the magazine