May 27, 2008
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Washington Monthly not merging with Common Cause
The Washington Monthly, which has a history of not being flush with cash, is facing particularly tough times these days.
Now, a proposed merger between lobby group Common Cause has fallen apart. Washington Monthly EIC Paul Glastris remains upbeat, telling the Washington Post that the magazine's "got some stuff cookin'."
That's good news if Glastris has other options, because here's how things looked earlier this month in a New York Review of Magazines piece.
Glastris, however, believes that the joint venture can work, because of the compatibility of the missions of Common Cause and The Monthly. “There’s nothing that they’re for that we aren’t also for,” he said, adding that many magazines, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, Sierra and Smithsonian, are owned by nonprofits and maintain their editorial independence.
Common Cause has the potential to save Peters’ magazine. As this article goes to press, The Washington Monthly is weighing what it stands to win against what it could lose by joining forces with the sort of organization about which, in the past, it might well have written an unexpectedly critical article.
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