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Seth Putnam

  • Senior Content Manager, Slack
  • Reporter and Editor, Freelance
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Words @SlackHQ. Priors: editor @builtin, EIC @collectiveqtrly, reporter @kcstar. My newsletter about places that feel like home. Find me there 👇 not here.

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Seth Putnam’s Biography

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Seth Putnam is the editorial director and co-founder of The Collective Quarterly, a new print magazine about travel and design. A graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, he also writes for Chicago magazine, Time Inc., Michigan Avenue magazine, the Sun-Times. In a past life, he covered politics for the Kansas City Star and was a general assignment reporter at a small daily newspaper in rural Mississippi.

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Issue 1: Absaroka

Issue 1: Absaroka

This slice of Montana is dominated by the Absaroka Mountains-a name that means "children of the large-beaked …

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Suitsupply's Natty Summer Suits for Men

Suitsupply's Natty Summer Suits for Men

Published May 8, 2012 "For the money, you won't find a better make," declared the editors of New York magazin…

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In Defense of Stationery: Why You Should Give a Damn

In Defense of Stationery: Why You Should Give a Damn

It must have been like pulling teeth, but my mother would be damned if her kids didn't learn how to write a p…

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The Vines That Bind: Terlato Vintners

The Vines That Bind: Terlato Vintners

A fence lizard clings to a velvety cluster of Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, his blood still too cold to manage m…

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An Underground Sushi Lair

An Underground Sushi Lair

Published November 09, 2011 You can feel it. A nip here. A chill there. It's unmistakable: winter is nigh. Th…

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Articles

Electrochemically Mediated Au–C(sp2) Anchors for Molecular Electronics

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By Rajarshi Samajdar, Chun-I. Wang, Seth Putnam, Seungjoo Yi
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C: Energy Conversion and StorageSeptember 19, 2025 Rajarshi Samajdar Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States Hao Yang Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States Department...
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The things we own end up owning us

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By Seth Putnam
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Every direction I turn, I am poked and prodded to buy. Once upon a time, ads broadcast to the void. Now, the Algorithm calls us by name. An ad I heard this morning began with the question, “Who doesn’t want more of… everything?” Me, for one. Another one was from one of the big AI firms, interrupting a video about the Sony TC-D5 cassette field recorder — which, just between us girls, I think could fix me.
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Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy: An Evolving Toolbox for Revealing the Chemistry within Electrochemical Processes

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By Seth Putnam, Armando Santiago-Carboney, Peisen Qian, Joaquín Rodríguez-López
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What was your first job as a journalist?

A newspaper in Mississippi. "Nice to meet you, kid," my editor said. "There's been a body found down a Ruben's Fish Shack. Go check it out."

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Frequently. My favorite is a Smith-Corona I fixed up in Mississippi.

How is social media changing news?

It's delivering it, not producing it.
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