This November, the SLR turns 10!☀️ To celebrate, we’re inviting back 10 of our favorite guest editors, starting with the one and only Peter King. Check it out at the link in our bio 🔗
Most clicked of the week ☀️
Lots of great reading in this week’s newsletter! Link in bio 🔗
Retailers Locked Up Their Products
In one of my most anticipated media launches of the year (well, technically a re-launch), Bloomberg Businessweek went monthly in June.
Its new editor, Brad Stone, talked to Nieman Lab about how there’s “a real need for a distraction-free, lean-back news product” and why print is the ultimate version of that (he’s right, and I predict we’ll see a resurgence).
His team is off to a strong start, with a longer production cycle that allows them to pursue bigger trend and agenda-setting pieces over fast-paced analysis. There’s nobody better for that than Amanda Mull, here with her first feature for the magazine.
Full story: https://bloom.bg/4fxYzDN
✏️: Amanda Mull
📸: Saratta Chuengsatiansup for Bloomberg Businessweek
Any true crime lovers out there? We have something just for you. Subscribe to the SLR’s True Crime Spotlight newsletter for a monthly collection of all the best true crime stories. ☀️
So many great picks this week thanks to Nick Jackson ☀️
“It’s a rough world out there. Try not to get scammed.” - Caitlin Dewey 👀
Talking source material in SLR Podcast’s SOURCE MATERIAL series. How appropriate of us! Check it out wherever you get podcasts 🎧
What’s truly a “true story” in Hollywood? John Gatins helps us understand in this week’s episode of the SLR Podcast 🎧
All of this and more in this week’s newsletter!
We put together a list of our ten favorite stories from 2024 so far and trust us, it wasn’t easy. Check it out and subscribe to the SLR for free at the link in our bio 🔗
Over the last few years, @texasmonthly has had a booming success on the big and small screen, turning stories into film and TV series. In an interview with SLR’s @jacobfeldman, @megancreydt explains how it all happened.
Listen wherever you get podcasts 🎧
A good week for longform 👏🏼
“Great story is almost never asked for.”
Hear more from Marc Bernardin on the SLR Podcast 🎧
Hear more from Marc Bernardin on the Sunday Long Read Podcast 🎧
It was painful to narrow this down! What are your favs from this year? ☀️
New phrase unlocked: Naturgewolltes Gehen 🌱 Read the full SLR Behind the Story with Tim Loh at the link in our bio 🔗
Birkenstock fever: Bloomberg’s Tim Loh writes about the evolution of a very famous sandal in the #SLRBehindTheScenes ☀️
Listen to the full Sunday Long Read episode with Jessica Pressler wherever you get podcasts 🎧