# Win McCormack > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Win_McCormack > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Win_McCormack.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win_McCormack > Source revision: 1355258448 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Win McCormack** (**Winthrop Laflin McCormack**) is an American banking heir, political activist, publisher, and editor from [Oregon](/source/Oregon). He is editor-in-chief of *[Tin House](/source/Tin_House)*[1] magazine and [Tin House Books](/source/Tin_House_Books), the former publisher of *Oregon Magazine*, founder and treasurer of MediAmerica, Inc., and a co-founder of [*Mother Jones* magazine](/source/Mother_Jones_(magazine)). He serves on the board of directors of the journal *New Perspectives Quarterly*.[2] His political and social writings have appeared in *Oregon Humanities*, *Tin House*, *[The Nation](/source/The_Nation)*,[3] *[The Oregonian](/source/The_Oregonian)*, and *Oregon Magazine*. McCormack's investigative coverage of the [Rajneeshee](/source/Rajneeshee) movement was awarded a William Allen White Commendation from the [University of Kansas](/source/University_of_Kansas) and the [City and Regional Magazine Association](/source/City_and_Regional_Magazine_Association). As a political activist, McCormack served as Chair of the Oregon Steering Committee for [Gary Hart](/source/Gary_Hart)'s 1984 presidential campaign. He was chair of the [Democratic Party of Oregon](/source/Democratic_Party_of_Oregon)'s President's Council and a member of the [Obama](/source/Barack_Obama) for President Oregon Finance Committee.[citation needed] Additionally, McCormack sits on the Board of Overseers for [Emerson College](/source/Emerson_College),[4] and is a co-founder of the Los Angeles–based [Liberty Hill Foundation](/source/Liberty_Hill_Foundation).[5] In February 2016, McCormack purchased *[The New Republic](/source/The_New_Republic)* magazine from [Chris Hughes](/source/Chris_Hughes).[6][7][8] ## Early life and family McCormack is the son of attorney [Alfred McCormack](/source/Alfred_McCormack) and Winifred Byron Smith McCormack.[9] *Reed Magazine* reports that, after his mother’s death, he inherited money that helped him acquire *Oregon Times* magazine.[10] He has been described as “an heir to a midwestern banking fortune.”[11] On his mother’s side, a published genealogy identifies Winifred Byron Smith as the child of Walter Byron Smith.[12] A contemporary profile of Walter Byron Smith states that he was the second son of Byron Laflin Smith, who founded [The Northern Trust Company](/source/The_Northern_Trust_Company) in 1889.[13][14] ## Education He received an A.B. from [Harvard College](/source/Harvard_College) and an MFA from the [University of Oregon](/source/University_of_Oregon).[15] ## 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. ## References 1. ["WIN MCCORMACK"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080914014452/http://www.writersontheedge.org/mccormack.html). Archived from [the original](http://www.writersontheedge.org/mccormack.html) on September 14, 2008. Retrieved 2013-11-02. 1. ["NPQ"](http://www.digitalnpq.org/about/gardels.html). *Digitalnpq.org*. Retrieved 2016-10-19. 1. ["Deconstructing the Election"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080905230637/http://www.thenation.com./doc/20010326/mccormack). Archived from [the original](http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010326/mccormack) on 2008-09-05. Retrieved 2008-09-01. 1. ["About Emerson | Emerson College"](https://web.archive.org/web/20081120103146/http://www.emerson.edu/about/overseers.cfm). *Emerson.edu*. Archived from [the original](http://www.emerson.edu/about/overseers.cfm) on 2008-11-20. Retrieved 2016-10-19. 1. [About: History, Liberty Hill Foundation website, Undated](https://www.libertyhill.org/history). Retrieved 2 February 2017. 1. Byers, Dylan (26 February 2016). ["The New Republic is sold by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160229072405/http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/26/media/new-republic-chris-hughes-win-mccormack/index.html). *CNNMoney*. Archived from [the original](https://money.cnn.com/2016/02/26/media/new-republic-chris-hughes-win-mccormack/index.html) on February 29, 2016. Retrieved 2016-02-27. 1. Trotter, J.K. ["Chris Hughes Sells The New Republic to Win McCormack"](http://gawker.com/chris-hughes-sells-the-new-republic-to-win-mccormack-1761546865). *Gawker*. Retrieved 22 November 2016. 1. Alpert, Lukas I. ["Chris Hughes Sells New Republic to Liberal Publisher Win McCormack"](https://www.wsj.com/articles/chris-hughes-sells-new-republic-to-liberal-publisher-win-mccormack-1456510500). *Wall Street Journal*. Retrieved 22 November 2016. 1. "Former Director of Intelligence". *The New York Times*. 1956-07-12. 1. ["Win/Win"](https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2018/win-mccormack-trustee.html). *Reed Magazine*. Reed College. 2018-05-23. 1. ["Stephen Elliott and the ‘Shitty Media Men’ List Go to Court"](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/shitty-media-men-lawsuit-moira-donegan-stephen-elliott.html). *New York Magazine*. 2022-10-25. 1. Laflin, Louis Ellsworth (1930). [*Laflin Genealogy*](https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G004014.pdf). Chicago. 1. ["Walter Byron Smith"](https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/nfr/nwbanker/nwbanker_194505.pdf). *The Northwestern Banker*. May 1945. 1. ["Our History"](https://www.northerntrust.com/united-states/about-us/our-history). *Northern Trust* 1. ["Home"](http://www.winmccormack.com/). Retrieved 26 November 2017. ## External links - [Official website](http://www.winmccormack.com) - [Win McCormack collection on Rajneeshpuram](https://scua.uoregon.edu/repositories/2/resources/3457) at University of Oregon Libraries Special Collections and University Archives --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Win McCormack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win_McCormack) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win_McCormack?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.