Sloane Citron Explained

Sloane Citron
Birth Date:20 February 1956
Nationality:American
Education:Phillips Academy
Alma Mater:Claremont McKenna College
Stanford Business School
Occupation:Publisher
Years Active:30+ years

Sloane Citron (born 1956) is an American publisher based in Menlo Park, California.

Early life

Citron has loved magazines and magazine publishing since he was a youth. In second grade, he started his first publication entitled The Second Grade News,[1] and in junior high school, he subscribed to Folio, a trade publication about the magazine business. While at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, he founded a humor magazine entitled Muse; he graduated in 1974.[2] He studied at Claremont McKenna and was involved in journalism, and received an internship at Los Angeles magazine. He graduated from Stanford Business School.

Career

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.[3] His first magazine Peninsula was an upscale monthly[4] which focused on the San Francisco suburbs in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. He founded magazines Northern California Home & Garden and Southern California Home & Garden; the firm owned six magazines at one point.[5] In the 1990s, he launched 18 Media with journalist and business partner Elsie Floriani.[6] [7]

Glossy high production magazines were sent free to every home in the highly affluent cities and towns of Silicon Valley.[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] The new format meant that he could virtually eliminate the subscription department, and avoid renewals and insert cards. His magazines Click Weekly and CAFE covered the lifestyles of people in Silicon Valley's high-tech industry.[14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] In 2018, he launched Punch magazine, a publication that showcases new ideas and culture from the San Francisco peninsula.[21] [22]

Personal life

Citron is married with four children in a traditional Jewish family.[1]

External links

Notes and References

  1. InMenlo magazine, Linda Hubbard Gulker, July 26, 2013, Publisher Sloane Citron on living and working in Menlo Park for two decades, Retrieved May 8, 2020
  2. Sloane Citron, Gentry Magazine, Sloane Citron, Retrieved May 8, 2020
  3. Regional Interest Magazines of the United States. Greenwood Publishing Group. Page 255. Sam G. Riley, Gary W. Selnow. 1991
  4. News: John Gabree . New Ms. Has a Few New Twists . Los Angeles Times . February 5, 1988 . 2012-03-21.
  5. News: George Lazarus . Magazine's New Home Out West . Chicago Tribune . October 18, 1991 . 2012-03-21.
  6. News: Jennifer Montana's launch party . San Francisco Chronicle . 2012-03-21 . 2012-03-21.
  7. News: Moanalani Jeffrey . The Next Bag Thing: The Fall Tiffany Leather Collection From Lambertson & Truex . San Francisco Examiner . November 26, 2011 .
  8. News: Jessica Goldman: SF Healthy Foods Examiner . San Francisco Examiner . 2012-03-21 .
  9. News: Tiffany Carboni: SF Motherhood Examiner . San Francisco Examiner . 2012-03-21 .
  10. News: Diane Sussman . Gentry: rank has its linage -- The latest in a long line of Peninsula magazines weathers charges of elitism to celebrate its second anniversary . Palo Alto Online . Feb 15, 1995 . 2012-03-21.
  11. News: Elsie M. Floriani . Letters to the Editor . Palo Alto Online . Mar 15, 1995 . 2012-03-21.
  12. News: Cassius L. Kirk Jr. . Enjoying the good life (letter to the editor) . Palo Alto Online . Mar 1, 1995 . 2012-03-21.
  13. News: Jane Knoerle . Elsie Floriani puts thoughts on life between hard covers . The Almanac . December 1, 2004 . 2012-03-21.
  14. News: MARK SIMON . Weekly Tries To 'Click' in Silicon Valley: Newspaper venture looks to 'capture excitement' of region . San Francisco Chronicle . August 28, 1999 . 2012-03-21.
  15. News: MARK SIMON . CLICK ON, CLICK OFF, CLICK ON . San Francisco Chronicle . November 27, 1999 . 2012-03-21.
  16. News: Jennifer Kavanaugh . Covering Silicon Valley with a Click: Weekly newspaper morphs into glossy magazine . Palo Alto Online . Nov 24, 1999 . 2012-03-21.
  17. News: Sean Howell . Business: Gentry publishers launch magazine for a 'younger demographic' . The Almanac . August 2, 2006 . 2012-03-21 . dead . https://archive.today/20130120235640/http://www.almanacnews.com/story.php?story_id=2269 . January 20, 2013 .
  18. News: Sandy Brundage . Publisher Sloane Citron to start local newspaper . The Almanac . August 11, 2010 . 2012-03-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101206081154/http://www.almanacnews.com/story.php?story_id=9981 . December 6, 2010 .
  19. News: Sandy Brundage . The WAMP goes weekly . The Almanac . August 25, 2010 . 2012-03-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101206071734/http://www.almanacnews.com/story.php?story_id=10041 . December 6, 2010 .
  20. News: Editorial staff . Menlo briefs . The Almanac . November 24, 2010 . 2012-03-21 . dead . https://archive.today/20130116150429/http://www.almanacnews.com/story.php?story_id=10471 . January 16, 2013 .
  21. Interview with Samir Husni, Mister Magazine, h1Punch Magazine: A New Regional Title That’s Packing A “Punch” On The San Francisco Peninsula – The Mr. Magazine™ Interview With Sloane Citron, Founder & Publisher, Retrieved May 8, 2020
  22. Linda Hubbard Gulker, July 27, 2018, InMenlo magazine, Sloane Citron is back in the world of magazines with the launch of Punch, Retrieved May 8, 2020

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