Q&A: Tablet Magazine's EIC on opinion writing and Gen Z’s newfound love of print

In a new Sunday Long Read podcast episode, Alana Newhouse, the editor-in-chief of Tablet Magazine, unpacks one of the magazine’s latest cover stories: a piece about the horrors of factory farming in the U.S., specifically as it relates to pig farms. Newhouse unflinchingly argues in a corresponding letter from the editor that Americans should stop eating industrially produced meat. “We are consuming slop, and producing slop,” she argues. “The two are related.”

In this in-depth Q&A, Newhouse chats about the origin and purpose of Tablet Magazine, an online outlet she founded in 2009 to serve as “a Jewish magazine about the world.” Since then, the world has changed, and Tablet has changed with it, Newhouse says. The writer and editor-in-chief also digs into the role of opinion writing in the traditional media landscape, how she seeks to “challenge” public discourse, and Tablet’s recent move to print after an unexpected push from younger readers.

Show notes :

0:00 : American Treif (Tablet Magazine)

0:00 : Ugly In, Ugly Out (Tablet Magazine)

0:00 : Alana Newhouse author page (Tablet Magazine)

37:35 : The Peace Hotel (Tablet Magazine)

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This episode was hosted by Amanda Ulrich and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. The Sunday Long Read Podcast is executive produced by Étienne Lajoie.