There’s a new magazine in town, one dedicated to pieces about misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, and other ways that people consume wrong information.
OpenMind Magazine (whose tagline is “tackling science controversies and deceptions”) was officially launched in mid-March and was really the result of old friends wanting to launch a magazine together.
Pamela Weintraub and Corey S. Powell, the magazine’s two co-editors-in-chief, have been friends and colleagues for decades. As veteran magazine journalists — at Discover Magazine, Aeon, Omni Magazine, American Scientist and others — Weintraub and Powell knew they always wanted to launch a magazine together. But their initial idea was quite a bit different than what they did end up launching.
“We had an idea for another magazine — we still do — called Proxima and it was with some of our friends in the science fiction community. And it was going to be looking at the future of science,” said Weintraub.
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Source: A new magazine delves into the ways that people consume wrong information | Nieman Journalism Lab