scout in retrospect
short but eventful life as a youth culture platform with former editors in chief Cai Diegor in an online interview. Here are excerpts from the roundtable:
LEX: Scout?
CAI: Scout happen. The managing editor and art director Taken together, these all felt like signs that people! We had only advertised the party on Instagram and maybe in a small ad in the
Inquirer (I can’t remember for sure), but the
Scout The circumstances surrounding its birth didn’t have to be perfect; the magazine itself didn’t have to be perfect because Scout setting a precedent. Think about it: It is a free spectrum of Filipino youth. Even today, there isn’t anything else like it. But I also like to Scout into existence because they had long been ready for it. In that sense, it only feels right to attribute the magazine’s success to them.
LEX:
Scout CAI:
Rookie
Scout to look like a handmade zine. But more Rookie is that it isn’t meant to be aspirational for young people; it is about exploring and them. I created Scout adamant about making something young people could get lost in, seek solace in, and feel seen.
LEX: Scout to you personally that made you decide to take the helm?
JED: Scout’s appeal to me–I certainly felt that magazine brand here.
LEX: Scout the the same?
ROMEO: talked to them. The voice changed varyingly could get our audience to resonate the most. art, social issues, politics, and everything that most of all. I think our drive to talk to them
LEX: Scout’s biggest struggle titles fold and the publishing industry is in ensure Scout’s “survival”?
JED: talking about just budget, but resources in the broader, deeper sense—your access, your talent pool, your journalistic skill set, etc. But on the abstract, I guess most of the great still surviving magazines have some things in zeitgeist is headed next.
CAI: