Sloane Citron
Sloane Citron | |
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Born | February 20, 1956 |
Residence | Menlo Park, California |
Nationality | American |
Education | Phillips Academy |
Alma mater | Claremont McKenna College |
Occupation | Publisher |
Years active | 30+ years |
Employer | 18 Media |
Website |
18media |
Sloane Citron (born 1956) is an American publisher based in Menlo Park, California, who publishes the Gentry lifestyle magazines directed at affluent readers in the San Francisco Bay Area.[1]
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.[2] His first magazine Peninsula was an upscale monthly similar in format to New York Magazine[3] 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.[4] In the 1990s, he launched 18 Media with journalist and business partner Elsie Floriani.[5][6] He changed from the paid magazine subscription format to a saturation delivery format[7] keeping glossy high production magazines which were sent free to every home in highly affluent Silicon Valley cities.[8][9][1][10][11][12] His magazines Click Weekly and CAFE cover the lifestyles of people in Silicon Valley's high-tech industry.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19]
References
- 1 2 Diane Sussman (Feb 15, 1995). "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. Retrieved 2012-03-21.
- ↑ Regional Interest Magazines of the United States. Greenwood Publishing Group. Page 255. Sam G. Riley, Gary W. Selnow. 1991
- ↑ John Gabree (February 5, 1988). "New Ms. Has a Few New Twists". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-03-21.
- ↑ George Lazarus (October 18, 1991). "Magazine`s New Home Out West". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2012-03-21.
- ↑ "Jennifer Montana's launch party". San Francisco Chronicle. 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2012-03-21.
- ↑ Moanalani Jeffrey (November 26, 2011). "The Next Bag Thing: The Fall Tiffany Leather Collection From Lambertson & Truex". San Francisco Examiner.
...Tiffany & Co. Vice-President, Tom Carroll welcomed guests along with Co-Hosts, Elsie Floriani and Stefanie Lingle of Gentry Magazine....
- ↑ Folio Magazine. June 1, 1993. ... The idea is to saturate very affluent communities in very targeted areas, Citron says....
- ↑ "Jessica Goldman: SF Healthy Foods Examiner". San Francisco Examiner. 2012-03-21.
- ↑ "Tiffany Carboni: SF Motherhood Examiner". San Francisco Examiner. 2012-03-21.
... Tiffany Carboni ... she was the senior editor of California Home & Design and Gentry Magazine ...
- ↑ Elsie M. Floriani (Mar 15, 1995). "Letters to the Editor". Palo Alto Online. Retrieved 2012-03-21.
- ↑ Cassius L. Kirk Jr. (Mar 1, 1995). "Enjoying the good life (letter to the editor)". Palo Alto Online. Retrieved 2012-03-21.
- ↑ Jane Knoerle (December 1, 2004). "Elsie Floriani puts thoughts on life between hard covers". The Almanac. Retrieved 2012-03-21.
- ↑ MARK SIMON (August 28, 1999). "Weekly Tries To `Click' in Silicon Valley: Newspaper venture looks to `capture excitement' of region". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2012-03-21.
- ↑ MARK SIMON (November 27, 1999). "CLICK ON, CLICK OFF, CLICK ON". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2012-03-21.
- ↑ Jennifer Kavanaugh (Nov 24, 1999). "Covering Silicon Valley with a Click: Weekly newspaper morphs into glossy magazine". Palo Alto Online. Retrieved 2012-03-21.
- ↑ Sean Howell (August 2, 2006). "Business: Gentry publishers launch magazine for a 'younger demographic'". The Almanac. Retrieved 2012-03-21.
- ↑ Sandy Brundage (August 11, 2010). "Publisher Sloane Citron to start local newspaper". The Almanac. Retrieved 2012-03-21.
- ↑ Sandy Brundage (August 25, 2010). "The WAMP goes weekly". The Almanac. Retrieved 2012-03-21.
- ↑ Editorial staff (November 24, 2010). "Menlo briefs". The Almanac. Retrieved 2012-03-21.