Evan Urquhart

Here's an idea I'd love someone else to do and then pay me as a contributor: Periphery: A magazine specifically for online leftish/lib/dem/progs who don't actually live in NYC or DC but do follow those worlds.

This seems like a large group, of both consumers and writers. Surely they must long to be catered to, and told they're important and smart. It would be 3/4ths the same as every other site, 1/4 stories about places other than NY and DC that made a big deal about themselves.

There are a lot of good regional (mostly online) magazines! Like Scalawag for the south, plenty of non-US oriented ones. But I get what you mean as a general everywhere-else concept lol

Yeah, exactly- this is somewhat tongue in cheek, but the idea would be recognizing that these people all follow and are mostly interested in NYC/DC, more so than their local area, but might like to feel like they're being directly spoken to rather than watching from the outside.

Also, funny you mention Scalawag- they once commissioned a piece, I wrote exactly what we discussed, and they came back and said they wanted a completely different first person piece I was unable to provide. Worst taste left in my mouth of anywhere I've worked with.

Oh that sucks, I'm sorry to hear that! I've never written for them (as an NYC dweller, lol)