Informing people about the new magazine, LODE MAGAZINE: Where the BEST stories are uncovered.
A lode is a vein of precious metal in rock – something of unusual worth which requires to be sought, found and brought up with great care. It makes no proclamation. It does not manifest itself spontaneously. It has to be located by the people who are knowledgeable of what they are seeking and are prepared to dig.
The philosophy of Lode Magazine is that.
In a world where media content is created on an industrial scale and stories vie to capture attention in a few milliseconds, Lode Magazine is there to slow down, and do something different. It is there to seek out the stories that are worth seeking out, the ones that are down under the noise, the ones that require time to tell in the right way, those that are ones you remember after having read them. Lode Magazine is a place where the reader can find the stories that are not necessarily the loudest, the most viral or the most easily packaged. they are those which you must turn up.
MISSION
The purpose of Lode Magazine is to print the best storytelling possible, journalism, essays and non-fiction narrative, which treats its subjects in the depth and care that they merit. The publication is devoted to the notion that great stories have the power to transform the way people perceive the world, and that allowing such stories to be told to their fullest is a way of valuing culture.
Fundamentally, Lode Magazine is anti- clickbait, anti- superficiality, and disposable. The publication will not be prepared to publish material that will be read and forgotten. All the articles presented in Lode Magazine should be read, stored and shared with another person.
It has also been a mission of discovery – of unearthing writers, subjects, views, which should have a broader audience. Not all great stories are those told by a well-known journalist of a well-known topic. The most important stories can be found in the most unlikely places, in very small communities, in such locations where no mainstream media has ever considered to explore.
VISION
The vision of Lode Magazine is to be the ultimate source of long-form storytelling in the digital era – a magazine that the reader will come to when they want it not because an algorithm delivered it to them, but because they are confident it will provide reliable delivery of something to read.
The great magazines and literary journals of the past are the inspiration of the vision, in other words, they were not known by the number of times they were posted, but rather by the quality of the content that they posted. Lode Magazine would like to bring that tradition into the modern times and show that there are still people who would appreciate storytelling, which takes its time and makes its conclusions.
Lode Magazine in the long term dreams of being a cultural institution – a place where new voices in the narrative journalism are found and fostered, where a community of readers passionate about the art of storytelling is built, where it makes a contribution to the long tradition of long-form non-fiction writing.
THE NAME and What it means.
Lode Magazine is a pun. A lode does not exist on the surface, but is one that must be sought. The name is inspired by the ideology of the publication that the best contents are not necessarily the most noticeable contents. Discovery requires excavation: more in-depth reporting, more in-depth conversations, more research, more drafts, more time.
The title is even an assurance to the reader. Reading anything in Lode Magazine you are reading something which was not easily produced. The effort is inculcated in the editorial philosophy. Those who visit this site are well aware that they will not be subjected to filler, hot takes or content created to serve itself. They will read work which was really dug up– of a good, solid subject, by a man who labored, and with a concern.
WHAT YOU’ll find in LODE MAGAZINE
Lode Magazine is published in a variety of different, yet closely related categories, all with a focus on the depth of narrative, and literary quality:
Long-Form Narrative Journalism – the core of Lode Magazine. They are long articles, 2,000-10,000 words, which trace the story as complex as it is. A good narrative journalism is written in the style of a novel and constructed upon the truth. It contains characters, conflict and climax. It brings the reader to the place that he/she could never get to by himself. The narrative journalism of Lode Magazine is an art that has an unintentionally broad scope: communities, industries, crimes, movements, individuals, institutions. The unifying factor is the story.
Personal Essays and Memoir — There is nothing as powerful storytelling as that which is too personal. Lode Magazine is a magazine that is focused on publishing personal essays and memoir excerpts of the writers who have a story to tell that either enlightens about the world in some larger aspect. These works are not confessional per se – they are well-woven stories in which the personal is generalized.
Literary Non-Fiction — Lode Magazine is passionately devoted to non-fiction which has a literary quality of great fiction. This is comprised of intensely researched historical accounts, extensive cultural journalism, and portrait reports about persons whose lives tell something vital about their era and locale. The prose under this category emphasizes beauty, style and accuracy.
Investigative Narratives — It takes months to report and some stories can only be reported after the reporting is done. The investigative work published by Lode Magazine is not only factually rigorous but also narrative compelling -investigations that involve the reader as part of the narrative and not just a report of the findings that is presented in a dry and report-like fashion.
Place Writing and Travel Narrative – Place writing and place travel writing is a long-standing tradition – it is about the experience of being in a particular place, at a particular time, with a particular group of people. Lode Magazine is an independent magazine which publishes travel writing and place narratives that transcend tourism to great extent. These works discuss the ways in which a place discloses history, identity, economics and human nature.
Cultural Commentary and Criticism- Lode Magazine is a magazine of extended cultural criticism of literature, film, art, music and ideas. These works are not reviews per se – they are essays which explore a cultural work as a prism to discuss something wider. They hold a stand, give arguments and are composed to readers who are serious about culture.
Interviews and Profiles- There are some stories that can be narrated using a long process that involves being in the presence of one person. LodeMagazine com is a long-form magazine that features profiles and interviews that are not the typical celebrity Q&A, but rather detailed accounts of the experiences that people have lived, worked, or thought about that warrant an in depth look.
Emerging Voices -One of the main responsibilities of LodeMagazine com is to bring to the fore the writers who are outstanding but not very popular. Each of the issues includes both upcoming and already known authors. LodeMagazine com thinks that the best thing that a publication can offer is to provide a platform to young upcoming writers with talent.
THE EDITORIAL PROCESS
In Lode Magazine nothing is published without a stringent editing. Lode editorial process is deliberately slow by the norms of digital media – it may take a work as long as it takes to go through several revisions, fact-checking, and copy editing before a work is published. It is not a bureaucratic process; and it is through this that raw reporting and first drafts are wrought into something that is really good.
The editors of the publication are collaborators in narrating stories. They collaborate closely with writers to ensure that there is no house style but to make each story the best it can be. This is one of the key features of Lode Magazine, collaborative approach to editing.
WHO LODEMAGAZINE Com is targeted at.
LodeMagazine com is a magazine that appeals to story lovers. Not narrative, but the sheer experience of reading something good – of being swept away by a piece of writing, of being instructed in something or of discovering something you knew before in a new light, of the sense that the work of a writer has really won your time.
It is to those readers who are fed up in an era of unlimited content that most of what they read and watch does not make any impression. Who go through feeds in search of something to read and seldom get anything. Who are able to remember certain passages of writing many years, because they were actually moved or changed by them.
LodeMagazine is created to suit the readers. It is the publication that they were seeking.
THE most good stories would be found.
The world is full of fantastic tales – of individuals who have lived through extraordinary events, of institutions that are undergoing transformation, of notions which might transform everything, of places which hold histories yet to be told. These stories exist. They need to have one who will find them, to do the business of taking them up to the surface, and to tell them in a manner that will give them the credit they deserve.
And such is the work of LodeMagazine com. Discover the most satisfactory tales. Tell them well. Provide them to those who are going to enjoy them.
The finest things to read are those to be mined. The digging is done by LodeMagazine com.
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Visit the Lode Magazine, at lodemagazine.net
