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Win McCormack

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Win McCormack
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materHarvard College, University of Oregon
OccupationsBanking heir, political activist, publisher, editor
Known forTin House magazine and books, co-founder of Mother Jones magazine, publisher of The New Republic
Notable workYou Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values (2008), The Rajneesh Chronicles (2010)
Board member of
Emerson College Board of Overseers, New Perspectives Quarterly
AwardsWilliam Allen White Commendation from University of Kansas
Websitewinmccormack.com

Win McCormack (Winthrop Laflin McCormack) is an American banking heir, political activist, publisher, and editor from Oregon.

He is editor-in-chief of Tin House[1] magazine and Tin House Books, the former publisher of Oregon Magazine, founder and treasurer of MediAmerica, Inc., and a co-founder of Mother Jones magazine. He serves on the board of directors of the journal New Perspectives Quarterly.[2] His political and social writings have appeared in Oregon Humanities, Tin House, The Nation,[3] The Oregonian, and Oregon Magazine. McCormack's investigative coverage of the Rajneeshee movement was awarded a William Allen White Commendation from the University of Kansas and the City and Regional Magazine Association.

As a political activist, McCormack served as Chair of the Oregon Steering Committee for Gary Hart's 1984 presidential campaign. He was chair of the Democratic Party of Oregon's President's Council and a member of the Obama for President Oregon Finance Committee.[citation needed] Additionally, McCormack sits on the Board of Overseers for Emerson College,[4] and is a co-founder of the Los Angeles–based Liberty Hill Foundation.[5]

In February 2016, McCormack purchased The New Republic magazine from Chris Hughes.[6][7][8]

Early life and family

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McCormack is the son of attorney Alfred McCormack and Winifred Byron Smith McCormack.[9]

Reed Magazine reports that, after his mother’s death, he inherited money that helped him acquire Oregon Times magazine.[10] He has been described as “an heir to a midwestern banking fortune.”[11] On his mother’s side, a published genealogy identifies Winifred Byron Smith as the child of Walter Byron Smith.[12] A contemporary profile of Walter Byron Smith states that he was the second son of Byron Laflin Smith, who founded The Northern Trust Company in 1889.[13][14]

Education

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He received an A.B. from Harvard College and an MFA from the University of Oregon.[15]

Books

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  • 2008 You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values. Portland, Oregon: Tin House Books. ISBN 978-1-135-89772-7.
  • 2010 The Rajneesh Chronicles. Portland, Oregon: Tin House Books. ISBN 978-0-9825691-9-1.

References

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  1. ^ "WIN MCCORMACK". Archived from the original on September 14, 2008. Retrieved 2013-11-02.
  2. ^ "NPQ". Digitalnpq.org. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
  3. ^ "Deconstructing the Election". Archived from the original on 2008-09-05. Retrieved 2008-09-01.
  4. ^ "About Emerson | Emerson College". Emerson.edu. Archived from the original on 2008-11-20. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
  5. ^ About: History, Liberty Hill Foundation website, Undated. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  6. ^ Byers, Dylan (26 February 2016). "The New Republic is sold by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes". CNNMoney. Archived from the original on February 29, 2016. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  7. ^ Trotter, J.K. "Chris Hughes Sells The New Republic to Win McCormack". Gawker. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  8. ^ Alpert, Lukas I. "Chris Hughes Sells New Republic to Liberal Publisher Win McCormack". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  9. ^ "Former Director of Intelligence". The New York Times. 1956-07-12.
  10. ^ "Win/Win". Reed Magazine. Reed College. 2018-05-23.
  11. ^ "Stephen Elliott and the 'Shitty Media Men' List Go to Court". New York Magazine. 2022-10-25.
  12. ^ Laflin, Louis Ellsworth (1930). Laflin Genealogy (PDF). Chicago.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  13. ^ "Walter Byron Smith" (PDF). The Northwestern Banker. May 1945.
  14. ^ "Our History". Northern Trust.
  15. ^ "Home". Retrieved 26 November 2017.
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