{{short description|American publisher and editor}}{{Infobox person | name = Win McCormack | image = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | education = | alma_mater = Harvard College, University of Oregon | occupation = Banking heir, political activist, publisher, editor | known_for = Tin House magazine and books, co-founder of Mother Jones magazine, publisher of The New Republic | notable_works = ''You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values'' (2008), ''The Rajneesh Chronicles'' (2010) | boards = Emerson College Board of Overseers, ''New Perspectives Quarterly'' | awards = William Allen White Commendation from University of Kansas | website = {{URL|winmccormack.com}} | image_size = | citizenship = United States }}
'''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''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.writersontheedge.org/mccormack.html |accessdate=2013-11-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914014452/http://www.writersontheedge.org/mccormack.html |title=WIN MCCORMACK |archivedate=September 14, 2008 }}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitalnpq.org/about/gardels.html |title=NPQ |website=Digitalnpq.org |date= |accessdate=2016-10-19}}</ref> His political and social writings have appeared in ''Oregon Humanities'', ''Tin House'', ''The Nation'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010326/mccormack |title=Deconstructing the Election |access-date=2008-09-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905230637/http://www.thenation.com./doc/20010326/mccormack |archive-date=2008-09-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''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|date=November 2016}} Additionally, McCormack sits on the Board of Overseers for Emerson College,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.emerson.edu/about/overseers.cfm |title=About Emerson | Emerson College |website=Emerson.edu |date= |accessdate=2016-10-19 |archive-date=2008-11-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120103146/http://www.emerson.edu/about/overseers.cfm |url-status=dead }}</ref> and is a co-founder of the Los Angeles–based Liberty Hill Foundation.<ref>[https://www.libertyhill.org/history About: History, Liberty Hill Foundation website, Undated]. Retrieved 2 February 2017.</ref>
In February 2016, McCormack purchased ''The New Republic'' magazine from Chris Hughes.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://money.cnn.com/2016/02/26/media/new-republic-chris-hughes-win-mccormack/index.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160229072405/http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/26/media/new-republic-chris-hughes-win-mccormack/index.html| url-status = dead| archive-date = February 29, 2016| title = The New Republic is sold by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes| last = Byers| first = Dylan| website = CNNMoney| date = 26 February 2016| access-date = 2016-02-27}}</ref><ref name="Gawker1">{{cite web|last1=Trotter|first1=J.K.|title=Chris Hughes Sells The New Republic to Win McCormack|url=http://gawker.com/chris-hughes-sells-the-new-republic-to-win-mccormack-1761546865|website=Gawker|accessdate=22 November 2016}}</ref><ref name="NewRep1">{{cite web|last1=Alpert|first1=Lukas I.|title=Chris Hughes Sells New Republic to Liberal Publisher Win McCormack|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/chris-hughes-sells-new-republic-to-liberal-publisher-win-mccormack-1456510500|website=Wall Street Journal|accessdate=22 November 2016}}</ref>
==Early life and family==
McCormack is the son of attorney Alfred McCormack and Winifred Byron Smith McCormack.<ref name="NYT1956McCormack">{{cite news |title=Former Director of Intelligence |newspaper=The New York Times |date=1956-07-12}}</ref>
''Reed Magazine'' reports that, after his mother’s death, he inherited money that helped him acquire ''Oregon Times'' magazine.<ref name="Reed2018">{{cite web |title=Win/Win |website=Reed Magazine |publisher=Reed College |date=2018-05-23 |url=https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2018/win-mccormack-trustee.html}}</ref> He has been described as “an heir to a midwestern banking fortune.”<ref name="NYMag2022">{{cite web |title=Stephen Elliott and the ‘Shitty Media Men’ List Go to Court |website=New York Magazine |date=2022-10-25 |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/shitty-media-men-lawsuit-moira-donegan-stephen-elliott.html}}</ref> On his mother’s side, a published genealogy identifies Winifred Byron Smith as the child of Walter Byron Smith.<ref name="Laflin1930">{{cite book |last=Laflin |first=Louis Ellsworth |title=Laflin Genealogy |location=Chicago |year=1930 |url=https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G004014.pdf}}</ref> 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.<ref name="NWBanker1945">{{cite journal |title=Walter Byron Smith |journal=The Northwestern Banker |date=May 1945 |url=https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/nfr/nwbanker/nwbanker_194505.pdf}}</ref><ref name="NorthernTrustHistory">{{cite web |title=Our History |website=Northern Trust |url=https://www.northerntrust.com/united-states/about-us/our-history}}</ref>
== Education == He received an A.B. from Harvard College and an MFA from the University of Oregon.<ref>{{cite web|title=Home|url=http://www.winmccormack.com/|accessdate=26 November 2017}}</ref>
== Books == * 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}}.
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==External links== *[http://www.winmccormack.com Official website] *[https://scua.uoregon.edu/repositories/2/resources/3457 Win McCormack collection on Rajneeshpuram] at University of Oregon Libraries Special Collections and University Archives
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