LiNKED Spring 2008

15 “Slate has pretty nimble minds,” he says, adding Slate V pulls from the magazine’s brain trust for ideas as well. Smee says the Slate culture allows the staff to be freewheeling with their ideas— whether for the magazine or the video site. “Ideas crackle over the transom,” he says. “You have to be agile,” Smee says, noting the quick turnaround sometimes reminds him of his early days as a producer at CNN. Smee came to Slate V in June 2007 after serving as a producer at the Discovery Channel and executive producer at Discovery Times Channel. He spent 15 years at CNN, primarily producing long-form documentaries. His decision to move to Slate V is one that he is glad to have made. “Slate came as advertised,” he says. “it’s an incredible, non-hierarchical, un-political (media outlet) that embraces risk-taking.” BREAKING IT DOWN 2 MILLION videos—number of videos downloaded in Slate V’s ﬁrst three months 5 MILLION unique visitors each month at slate.com ONE OF FIVE online properties produced by Washingtonpost. Newsweek Interactive WWW.LINKED-MAGAZINE.COM http://www.slatev.com/ http://www.slate.com http://www.slatev.com/ http://www.slatev.com/ http://WWW.LINKED-MAGAZINE.COM

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LiNKED Spring 2008 Contents Editor's Letter Social Media Dwell Breaths Voice into Printed Words Slaate Puts the "V" in Video Journalism Graduate Prospects Goes Digital Blog Watch Editor,Blogger

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