In Praise of FP Magazine

I am a huge fan of Foreign Policy magazine’s website. In addition to their terrific roster of bloggers, they put up a treasure trove of original content every day. I’m convinced they’ve hit on a successful journalistic formula. The lively mag site on the web is a different animal from the print version. The two complement each other nicely.

Take a look at some of the headlines and articles from today. My favorite is “How to Cover a Paranoid Regime from your Laptop.” That’s a brilliant headline, like so many of FP’s heds.

And they also show how a magazine can follow up on a story it covered a few months earlier (so many magazines don’t do this), with a piece, entitled, “Seriously, the Congo does not Exist.”

The editor in me admires the whole package presented daily on FP. These folks know how to make foreign policy-related news and issues accessible to the general reader. That’s no easy feat. Other mags with a traditionally niche or specialized audience would do well to emulate FP.