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Sloane Citron | |
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Born | February 20, 1956 |
Nationality | American |
Education | Phillips Academy |
Alma mater |
Claremont McKenna College
[1] Stanford Business School [1] |
Occupation | Publisher |
Years active | 30+ years |
Website |
punchmagazine |
Sloane Citron (born 1956) is an American publisher based in Menlo Park, California.
Citron has loved magazines and magazine publishing since he was a youth. [1] In second grade, he started his first publication entitled The Second Grade News, [2] and in junior high school, he subscribed to Folio, a trade publication about the magazine business. [1] "I must have been the youngest subscriber," he remembers. [1] He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and was friends with Gary Lee, future director Peter Sellars, and acted in a performance with future television star Dana Delany. [3] While there, he founded a humor magazine entitled Muse, a secondary school equivalent to the Harvard Lampoon; he graduated in 1974. [3] He studied at Claremont McKenna and was heavily involved in journalism, and received an internship at Los Angeles magazine where he developed a strong appreciation for regional magazines. [1] He graduated from Stanford Business School. [4]
In the 1980s, Citron was general manager of Miami magazine and South Florida Home & Garden. In 1985, he founded Westar Media in Redwood City, California. [5] His first magazine Peninsula was an upscale monthly similar in format to New York Magazine [6] which focused on the San Francisco suburbs in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. He founded other magazines including Northern California Home & Garden and Southern California Home & Garden; the firm owned six magazines at one point. [7] In the 1990s, he launched 18 Media with journalist and business partner Elsie Floriani. [8] [9]
Citron veered from the standard subscription model of magazine publishing, and pioneered what might be termed the "saturation delivery" model. [2] [10]
Glossy high production magazines were sent free to every home in the highly affluent cities and towns of Silicon Valley. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] The new format meant that he could virtually eliminate the entire subscription department, and avoid the fuss of renewals and insert cards. [4] His magazines Click Weekly and CAFE covered the lifestyles of people in Silicon Valley's high-tech industry. [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] In 2018, he launched Punch magazine, a publication that showcases new ideas and culture from the San Francisco peninsula. [4] [1] While reading a Wikipedia article on defunct British magazines, he came upon the title 'Punch', [4] and chose that after considering more than a thousand different possible titles, to convey a sense of being both modern and hip. [1]
Citron is married with four children in a traditional Jewish family and he has coached T-ball, basketball, and soccer. [2]
...Tiffany & Co. Vice-President, Tom Carroll welcomed guests along with Co-Hosts, Elsie Floriani and Stefanie Lingle of Gentry Magazine....
... Tiffany Carboni ... she was the senior editor of California Home & Design and Gentry Magazine ...
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Sloane Citron | |
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Born | February 20, 1956 |
Nationality | American |
Education | Phillips Academy |
Alma mater |
Claremont McKenna College
[1] Stanford Business School [1] |
Occupation | Publisher |
Years active | 30+ years |
Website |
punchmagazine |
Sloane Citron (born 1956) is an American publisher based in Menlo Park, California.
Citron has loved magazines and magazine publishing since he was a youth. [1] In second grade, he started his first publication entitled The Second Grade News, [2] and in junior high school, he subscribed to Folio, a trade publication about the magazine business. [1] "I must have been the youngest subscriber," he remembers. [1] He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and was friends with Gary Lee, future director Peter Sellars, and acted in a performance with future television star Dana Delany. [3] While there, he founded a humor magazine entitled Muse, a secondary school equivalent to the Harvard Lampoon; he graduated in 1974. [3] He studied at Claremont McKenna and was heavily involved in journalism, and received an internship at Los Angeles magazine where he developed a strong appreciation for regional magazines. [1] He graduated from Stanford Business School. [4]
In the 1980s, Citron was general manager of Miami magazine and South Florida Home & Garden. In 1985, he founded Westar Media in Redwood City, California. [5] His first magazine Peninsula was an upscale monthly similar in format to New York Magazine [6] which focused on the San Francisco suburbs in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. He founded other magazines including Northern California Home & Garden and Southern California Home & Garden; the firm owned six magazines at one point. [7] In the 1990s, he launched 18 Media with journalist and business partner Elsie Floriani. [8] [9]
Citron veered from the standard subscription model of magazine publishing, and pioneered what might be termed the "saturation delivery" model. [2] [10]
Glossy high production magazines were sent free to every home in the highly affluent cities and towns of Silicon Valley. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] The new format meant that he could virtually eliminate the entire subscription department, and avoid the fuss of renewals and insert cards. [4] His magazines Click Weekly and CAFE covered the lifestyles of people in Silicon Valley's high-tech industry. [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] In 2018, he launched Punch magazine, a publication that showcases new ideas and culture from the San Francisco peninsula. [4] [1] While reading a Wikipedia article on defunct British magazines, he came upon the title 'Punch', [4] and chose that after considering more than a thousand different possible titles, to convey a sense of being both modern and hip. [1]
Citron is married with four children in a traditional Jewish family and he has coached T-ball, basketball, and soccer. [2]
...Tiffany & Co. Vice-President, Tom Carroll welcomed guests along with Co-Hosts, Elsie Floriani and Stefanie Lingle of Gentry Magazine....
... Tiffany Carboni ... she was the senior editor of California Home & Design and Gentry Magazine ...