This Land Press is Oklahoma's first New Media

New media

New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century. For example, new media holds out a possibility of on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community...

 company based out of Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 46th-largest city in the United States. With a population of 391,906 as of the 2010 census, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 937,478 residents in the MSA and 988,454 in the CSA. Tulsa's...

. It was founded by Michael Mason

Michael Paul Mason

Michael Paul Mason , sometimes credited as Michael Mason, is an American writer, author, editor, and journalist.-Literary work:...

, an Oklahoma-born author, journalist, and editor.

In addition to offering audio and video content on the website, This Land Press also began publishing This Land, a bi-weekly broadsheet

Broadsheet

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, in May 2010. This place-based publication primarily features longform, in-depth, narrative journalism focused on Oklahoma's cultural and historical landscape. As of November 2010, the print edition also features fiction and poetry by prominent Oklahoma writers.

Past contributors to the print edition include Rivka Galchen

Rivka Galchen

Rivka Galchen is a Canadian-American writer. Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in 2008, has been translated into over 20 languages, and was awarded the William J. Saroyan International Prize for Fiction....

, Ben Greenman

Ben Greenman

Ben Greenman is an American writer and magazine editor.-Biography:Greenman was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Miami, Florida. He attended Miami Palmetto High School and then Yale University where he worked on the Yale Herald...

, Sam Lipsyte

Sam Lipsyte

Sam Lipsyte is an American novelist and short story writer.The son of the sports journalist Robert Lipsyte, Sam Lipsyte was born in New York City and raised in Closter, New Jersey...

, Ron Padgett

Ron Padgett

Ron Padgett is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. Bean Spasms, Padget's first collection of poems, was published in 1967 and written with Ted Berrigan...

, S. E. Hinton

S. E. Hinton

Susan Eloise Hinton is an American author best known for her young adult novel The Outsiders.While still in her teens, Hinton became a household name as the author of The Outsiders, her first and most popular novel, set in Oklahoma in the 1960s. She began writing it in 1965...

, Gordon Grice

Gordon Grice

Gordon Grice is an American nature writer and essayist.-Life:Grice grew up in rural Oklahoma, a setting that has figured in much of his writing. He graduated from Oklahoma State University with a BA in English and the University of Arkansas with an Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. He is...

, Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever is an American journalist who writes about popular culture for the Style section of the Washington Post. In 2009, he became one of the paper's TV critics. He is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, in 1993 and 1996...

, and Michael Wallis

Michael Wallis

Michael Wallis is a journalist and popular historian of the Western United States. He has written seventeen books, including Route 66: The Mother Road, about the historic highway U.S. Route 66...

, among others.

Reception

In March 2011, the Columbia Journalism Review

Columbia Journalism Review

The Columbia Journalism Review is an American magazine for professional journalists published bimonthly by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 1961....

 called This Land Press "The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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with balls." The article also compared This Land Press to the Oxford American

Oxford American

The Oxford American is an American quarterly literary magazine "dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South."-First publication:...

, saying that both publications "have a talent for mixing anachronistically beautiful print content with web features that are equal to (rather than derivative of) their print counterparts."

KWGS

KWGS

KWGS 89.5 FM is a National Public Radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The station was Oklahoma's first FM radio station and is one of two stations operated by the University of Tulsa. The station was established in 1947 through the initiative of TU speech professor Ben Graf Henneke, later president...

, a National Public Radio station in Tulsa, OK, covered the launch of This Land after the publication of its third issue in November 2010. In the broadcast, host Rich Fisher compared the publication to the "Golden Age of monthly magazine publication."