About

Slate is a daily magazine on the Web. Founded in 1996, we are a general-interest publication offering analysis and commentary about politics, news, business, technology, and culture. Slate's strong editorial voice and witty take on current events have been recognized with numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award for General Excellence Online. The site, which is owned by The Graham Holdings Company, does not charge for access and is supported by advertising revenues.

  • Company Name:
    Slate
  • Parent Company Name:
    The Washington Post
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    Washington, DC, United States
  • Office Locations:
    HQ: New York. Also: Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles.
  • 50 - 200 employees
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    Publisher: Politics, Business, Technology, Arts
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    Entertainment, Financial Services, Government & Politics, Health & Beauty, Sports, Technology
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    Slate is the social thought leader magazine.Business decision makers, sophisticated thought leaders and cultural trendsetters turn to Slate for the smartest conversation on the Web.Slate offers innovative editorial programs, groundbreaking podcasts, and award-winning SlateCustom branded content that powerfully connects readers with marketing messages. Let us craft an impactful and innovative program for you.
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    badastronomy.com, panoply.fm
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  • 4.18 Avg. Rating
  • 2.55 K Total reviews
  • App Url: https://itunes.apple.com/app/slate-magazine/id357555242
  • App Support: https://slate.com
  • Genre: News
  • Bundle ID: com.pointabout.Slate
  • App Size: 65.1 M
  • Version: 5.6.1
  • Release Date: February 26th, 2010
  • Update Date: May 29th, 2021

Description:

Enjoy Slate, the award-winning daily online magazine, on iPhone and iPad. Slate’s wry, insightful reporting and commentary on politics, news, and culture is now available in an application designed to optimize your mobile and tablet reading, listening, and viewing experience. The app offers a clean, easy-to-use interface and includes Slate articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos.

Features include:

- Access to the latest Slate articles and blogs, including Slate’s popular political and legal commentary, movie and television reviews, and Dear Prudence.
- Slate’s popular daily podcasts, including the Political Gabfest, the Culture Gabfest, The Gist and Slow Burn. The app allows users to play podcasts in the background while browsing other content.
- A home screen designed to showcase Slate’s top stories while allowing readers to browse the most recent and most popular stories.
- Tools that let users share Slate stories and features via e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, and SMS.
- Our membership product, Slate Plus is now available via in app purchase.

The app is free to download, however we do display advertisements within the app. Additionally we offer the ability to log in to your existing Slate Plus account or purchase a new Slate Plus account through the in app purchases. Your Slate Plus account can be used on your iOS devices as well as our website. To use your Slate Plus subscription on other devices you must create an account after completing your purchase. You can always create an account at a later time if you choose not to do so initially after your purchase.

With your Slate Plus subscription, you'll receive:
- Access to all Slate Plus content
- An ad-free experience

By creating an optional account you’ll also receive:
- Single-page articles
- In-page commenting
- Bonus podcast segments
- Early release, member-only and ad-free podcasts
- Access to Slatesters
- Access to premium seating at our live events
- Early access to and 30% off tickets to our live events

Slate Plus Subscription details:
There are two subscription option available for purchase: $5.99 per month and $58.99 per year (Save 17% with the annual) plan. New content is continuously being published by our writers. Your account will automatically renew at the end of each month or year depending on your subscription. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to user account settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.

For additional information regarding Slate Plus please see our FAQ:
http://www.slate.com/articles/slate_plus/slate_plus/2014/03/frequently_asked_questions_about_slate_plus.html

Slate's Privacy Policy: https://slate.com/privacy

Slate's Terms of Use: https://slate.com/terms

For additional information regarding auto renewal settings please refer to this link:
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We are always looking to improve our applications. Please send your thoughts and suggestions to ios@slate.com.

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Jatyr

May 28, 2021

Everything is now paywalled...

Deleted the app. Everything is now behind a paywall.

Amadomon

May 14, 2021

Too much paywall; no value

Like so many others, I enjoyed your writing, but not enough to pay for ad-filled (somebody ought to look up Cumulative Layout Shift), click-baity articles. Provide value and maybe we’ll pay. I’m uninstalling the app after years.

bearflugel

May 13, 2021

comportement bizarre

j’utilise slate us de maniére un peu superficielle je lis occasionnellement un article mais pas plus (car à part la politique le reste ne me concerne pas). là où les choses deviennent étranges c’est que je ne peux plus le lire sur Iphone alors que je peux continuer sur ordinateur ? bon je paye parfois des accès comme pour le journal « le monde » et je ne suis pas contre les accès payants. maintenant la question est: est-ce que slate us est assez intéressant pour un européen pour justifier le prix demandé ? la réponse est non ( je vais juste continuer à butiner un peu sur mon ordi)

arbysauce

May 10, 2021

Frustrating notifications

This app is utterly broken in the way its notifications work. I’ll get a notification about a story that looks interesting so I’ll click on it fully expecting the app to open to the article I question. Instead, the just opens and then you are left to wade through any number of articles depending on when the one you are looking for was published. How is it every othe news organization doesn’t have this problem? Please fix it before I’m convinced to quit wasting my time and cancel my Slate+ subscription.

Egemoen

May 10, 2021

Useless Now

When Slate announced they were extending the loving embrace of their paywall to iOS, I assumed we’d still be able to periodically read articles without the overpriced subscription. Seems not to be the case. May as well pull the app from the app store. You want $60 a year, maybe get some better writers.

MarcZero

May 02, 2021

The app and content aren’t worth the price.

I read Slate off and in for years. Now they won’t let me read without paying $60/year. Your articles are not worth half the price of a video streaming g service. I read less than 10 articles a month. I’m not paying 50 cents a piece to read them in an app that almost never properly formatted the content or show embedded tweets correctly. After almost a decade, I’ll be deleting the app tonight and will likely stop interacting with Slate altogether as I only read news on my iPhone. Such a waste.
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