Recode Decode: Joanna Coles, author, 'Love Rules'
Decoder with Nilay Patel
Did the Magazine Become the Center of the Conversation?
As an editor, I was thinking about it in terms of, I want to be your best friend. Cosmo has the reputation for being the big sister that you can ask questions. And so being allowed to do that on a daily hourly basis felt incredibly exciting and also meant that young women were sort of propelled to have a conversation in the center of the conversation. So did the magazine become the center then or not the center? Well I think it became a really powerful voice for young women. Now of course it also amplifies voices that you don't want to be heard. Right. But the good news is it allowed a whole generation of young women who had something to say to be heard
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