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21 December 2004 - 11:48 am

It's been widely known that Slate was on the auction block* and it had long been rumored that the Washington Post was the most likely buyer. All the speculation ended today when it was announced that, indeed, the Post had bought Slate.

Here are relevant articles from Slate, WaPo, and the NY Times (for an independent perspective). I found the Post article the most interesting.

The current line is that most things at Slate will remain the same. I'm just hoping they redesign their site to work a bit better in all browsers except IE.

* I first suspected something when the URL www.slate.com stopped redirecting to slate.msn.com. I suspected the were trying to reestablish that former URL in preparation for a separation from MSN.

Posted by on 21 December 2004 at 11:49 AM

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