San Francisco writer
Douglas McGray (an Irvine fellow at the
New American Foundation), a contributor of social-policy narratives for
The New Yorker and the acclaimed public-radio show,
This American Life, is Pop-Up's editor in chief. "Branching out into radio opened my eyes to all the ways a story can be told," says McGray, 34. Despite what he calls the "awkward phase" that journalism is currently suffering, the Maine native claims that Pop-Up Magazine is not a reaction to a floundering print-media industry. "Pop-Up is about curiosity and possibility," he says. Pop-Up's masthead comprises a who's who of magazine veterans: creative directors Derek Fagerstrom (
Esquire,
ReadyMade) and Lauren Smith, story editor Evan Ratliff (
Wired,
The New Yorker) and design director Maili Holiman (
ReadyMade,
Wired).
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