Belt Magazine

{{Short description|News organization covering the American Midwest}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Belt | logo = | logo_size =  | image_file =  | image_size =  | image_alt = | image_caption = | editor = Ed Simon | editor_title = Editor | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = Cultural magazine | frequency = | format = Online | circulation = | publisher = Belt Media Collaborative | paid_circulation = | unpaid_circulation = | circulation_year = | total_circulation = | founder = Anne Trubek | founded = 2013 | firstdate = | finaldate = | finalnumber = | company = | country = United States | based = Cleveland, Ohio | language = English | website = {{URL|https://www.beltmag.com}} | issn = | oclc = }}

'''''Belt Magazine''''' is a digital nonprofit news organization that covers the Rust Belt and the American Midwest.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://beltmag.com/about-us/|title=About Us|last=Trubek|first=Anne|website=Belt Magazine|date=18 August 2013 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref> It was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2013 by Anne Trubek, and is published by the Belt Media Collaborative.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://inn.org/members/belt-magazine/|title=Belt Magazine|website=Institute for Nonprofit News|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref> According to the magazine's website, ''Belt'' is "dedicated to publishing thoughtful, nuanced writing about the past, present, and future of the region."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://beltmag.com/about-us/|title=About Us|last=Trubek|first=Anne|website=Belt Magazine|date=18 August 2013 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref> The magazine has received praise for its coverage of the Rust Belt from several media outlets.<ref>[https://beltmag.com/about-us/ about page]</ref> ''American Prospect'' described ''Belt'' in 2014 as "the nation's new literary darling," praising the magazine's coverage of the industrial Midwest.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://prospect.org/article/next-cool-thing-great-writing-middle-america|title=The Next Cool Thing: Great Writing From the Middle of America|last1=Teuscher|first1=Amanda|date=2014-11-24|work=The American Prospect|access-date=2019-03-25|last2=Cohen|first2=Rachel M.|language=en-US|issn=1049-7285}}</ref> The magazine's coverage of the 2016 Republican National Convention was reprinted in ''The Atlantic.''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://beltmag.com/within-convention-city-ghost-town/|title=Dispatch From a Ghost Town|last=Magazine|first=David Giffels, Belt|date=2016-07-22|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref> The similarly named ''Belt Publishing,'' which publishes book-length works on the Rust Belt, shares historical origins with the magazine and many of the same writers have published with both, but the entities are legally separate and distinct.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://beltpublishing.com/pages/press|title=What we do|website=Belt Publishing|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref>

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==External links== * [https://beltmag.com/ Official website]

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