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Tablet (magazine)
Tablet is an American magazine focused on Jewish news and culture, featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, fiction, and essays. It was founded in 2009 by editor-in-chief Alana Newhouse and is supported by the Nextbook foundation. Tablet’s website, print edition, and logo were all designed by Pentagram. Tablet has won National Magazine Awards, including one for General Excellence.
The magazine has been described as conservative or centre-right by Jewish organizations, though they regularly criticize the far-right.
Tablet was founded as a web magazine in June 2009 by Alana Newhouse in New York, former culture editor at The Forward, with the support of the Nextbook foundation as a rebranded and news-focused version of the Jewish literary journal Nextbook. In the three years after its founding, New York Magazine described Tablet as a "must-read for young politically and culturally engaged Jews". Its reporting has largely focused on Jewish news and culture. Tablet styled itself as the first "multimedia Jewish journalistic enterprise" and said it also reports on politics and religion and hosts podcasts. Tablet has received two National Magazine Awards in 2010 and 2011, one for Vox Tablet and one for its blog. The magazine won a Rockower Award in 2013 and another in 2022.
It was noted by the The New York Observer in September 2014 that the magazine had become more right-wing and supportive of the Israeli government after 2014 Gaza war. Critics of the magazine criticized it in 2022, saying it published content critical of transgender health care, COVID-19 vaccines, and hired several editors who supported policies of president Donald Trump. Scholar Steven Windmueller said Tablet is one of the publications that adheres to "conservative Jewish political thought".
In February 2015, Tablet tested a monetization method in which viewers could read articles for free but were required to pay to comment on them. Commenting cost $2 per day, $18 per month, or $180 per year. In May 2025, Tablet launched a new monthly print edition of the magazine, reportedly edited by Lorin Stein of The Paris Review. The print magazine has ads located on the back cover. The ads were said by The Nation to promote products of Peter Thiel, Bari Weiss and newsletter Pirate Wires by Mike Solana.
In July 2012, Tablet contributor Michael C. Moynihan broke the story on journalist Jonah Lehrer's fabrication of Bob Dylan quotes in his book Imagine. Tablet's publication of the article ultimately led to Lehrer's resignation from The New Yorker and publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's recall of Imagine and his second book How We Decide. Moynihan's investigation into Lehrer and the circumstances surrounding the publication of the article later became subject of Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed.
In August 2018, while Julia Salazar was campaigning for election to the New York State Senate, Tablet published an article questioning Salazar's claims that she was Jewish and an immigrant. Jewish Currents published an interview in which Salazar responded to the Tablet piece.
After the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in 2018, Newhouse and all six members of the magazine's editorial staff traveled to Pittsburgh to report on the shooting and its aftermath. Newhouse told The New York Times that "large-picture stories [and] the big-picture trends on right-wing radicalization" could be "left for think pieces for later", saying that Tablet staff were "focused on pieces where we could root them in the stories of actual human beings affected by this one way or the other." The magazine's coverage included reporting on the funerals of people killed in the shooting, and a special edition of its podcast Unorthodox.
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Tablet (magazine)
Tablet is an American magazine focused on Jewish news and culture, featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, fiction, and essays. It was founded in 2009 by editor-in-chief Alana Newhouse and is supported by the Nextbook foundation. Tablet’s website, print edition, and logo were all designed by Pentagram. Tablet has won National Magazine Awards, including one for General Excellence.
The magazine has been described as conservative or centre-right by Jewish organizations, though they regularly criticize the far-right.
Tablet was founded as a web magazine in June 2009 by Alana Newhouse in New York, former culture editor at The Forward, with the support of the Nextbook foundation as a rebranded and news-focused version of the Jewish literary journal Nextbook. In the three years after its founding, New York Magazine described Tablet as a "must-read for young politically and culturally engaged Jews". Its reporting has largely focused on Jewish news and culture. Tablet styled itself as the first "multimedia Jewish journalistic enterprise" and said it also reports on politics and religion and hosts podcasts. Tablet has received two National Magazine Awards in 2010 and 2011, one for Vox Tablet and one for its blog. The magazine won a Rockower Award in 2013 and another in 2022.
It was noted by the The New York Observer in September 2014 that the magazine had become more right-wing and supportive of the Israeli government after 2014 Gaza war. Critics of the magazine criticized it in 2022, saying it published content critical of transgender health care, COVID-19 vaccines, and hired several editors who supported policies of president Donald Trump. Scholar Steven Windmueller said Tablet is one of the publications that adheres to "conservative Jewish political thought".
In February 2015, Tablet tested a monetization method in which viewers could read articles for free but were required to pay to comment on them. Commenting cost $2 per day, $18 per month, or $180 per year. In May 2025, Tablet launched a new monthly print edition of the magazine, reportedly edited by Lorin Stein of The Paris Review. The print magazine has ads located on the back cover. The ads were said by The Nation to promote products of Peter Thiel, Bari Weiss and newsletter Pirate Wires by Mike Solana.
In July 2012, Tablet contributor Michael C. Moynihan broke the story on journalist Jonah Lehrer's fabrication of Bob Dylan quotes in his book Imagine. Tablet's publication of the article ultimately led to Lehrer's resignation from The New Yorker and publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's recall of Imagine and his second book How We Decide. Moynihan's investigation into Lehrer and the circumstances surrounding the publication of the article later became subject of Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed.
In August 2018, while Julia Salazar was campaigning for election to the New York State Senate, Tablet published an article questioning Salazar's claims that she was Jewish and an immigrant. Jewish Currents published an interview in which Salazar responded to the Tablet piece.
After the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in 2018, Newhouse and all six members of the magazine's editorial staff traveled to Pittsburgh to report on the shooting and its aftermath. Newhouse told The New York Times that "large-picture stories [and] the big-picture trends on right-wing radicalization" could be "left for think pieces for later", saying that Tablet staff were "focused on pieces where we could root them in the stories of actual human beings affected by this one way or the other." The magazine's coverage included reporting on the funerals of people killed in the shooting, and a special edition of its podcast Unorthodox.