Want to learn about the hottest new band out of Williamsburg? Maybe the hippest coffee bar in Fort Greene? Or you're looking for the best place to purchase kale in Bedford?
Or perhaps you're tired of reading about Brooklyn as the breeding ground of hipster nonsense. That's why Raphael Pope-Sussman, Thomas Rhiel, and Ben Cotton founded BKLYNR, which launched its first issue today. These guys have a pretty good grounding in journalism: All three are 2011 grads of Columbia College. They were also the Editorial Page Editor, Managing Editor, and Editor in Chief of this newspaper in 2010.
The web-only publication (pronounced “Brooklyner”) will cover the entire borough, as the name suggests, publishing longforms and graphics twice a month about political, economic, and cultural issues. Brooklyn native Pope-Sussman acknowledged that there is already an enormous amount of coverage of the borough. The idea for BKLYNR, he said, is to produce more thoughtful, compelling, and in-depth coverage---“journalism that explores new narratives rather than retreading tired tropes,” according to the website.
