Win McCormack

{{short description|American publisher and editor}}

Win McCormack is an American banking heir, political activist, publisher, and editor from Oregon.

He is editor-in-chief of Tin House{{cite web|url=http://www.writersontheedge.org/mccormack.html |accessdate=2013-11-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914014452/http://www.writersontheedge.org/mccormack.html |title=WIN MCCORMACK |archivedate=September 14, 2008 }} magazine and Tin House Books, the former publisher of Oregon Magazine, founder and treasurer of MediAmerica, Inc., and a co-founder of Mother Jones magazine. He serves on the board of directors of the journal New Perspectives Quarterly.{{cite web |url=http://www.digitalnpq.org/about/gardels.html |title=NPQ |website=Digitalnpq.org |date= |accessdate=2016-10-19}} His political and social writings have appeared in Oregon Humanities, Tin House, The Nation,{{Cite web |url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010326/mccormack |title=Deconstructing the Election |access-date=2008-09-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905230637/http://www.thenation.com./doc/20010326/mccormack |archive-date=2008-09-05 |url-status=dead }} The Oregonian, and Oregon Magazine. McCormack's investigative coverage of the Rajneeshee movement was awarded a William Allen White Commendation from the University of Kansas and the City and Regional Magazine Association.

As a political activist, McCormack served as Chair of the Oregon Steering Committee for Gary Hart's 1984 presidential campaign. He was chair of the Democratic Party of Oregon's President's Council and a member of the Obama for President Oregon Finance Committee.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}} Additionally, McCormack sits on the Board of Overseers for Emerson College,{{cite web|url=http://www.emerson.edu/about/overseers.cfm |title=About Emerson | Emerson College |website=Emerson.edu |date= |accessdate=2016-10-19}} and is a co-founder of the Los Angeles–based Liberty Hill Foundation.[https://www.libertyhill.org/history About: History, Liberty Hill Foundation website, Undated]. Retrieved 2 February 2017.

In February 2016, McCormack purchased The New Republic magazine from Chris Hughes.{{cite web

| url = https://money.cnn.com/2016/02/26/media/new-republic-chris-hughes-win-mccormack/index.html| title = The New Republic is sold by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes| last = Byers| first = Dylan| website = CNNMoney| date = 26 February 2016| access-date = 2016-02-27}}{{cite web|last1=Trotter|first1=J.K.|title=Chris Hughes Sells The New Republic to Win McCormack|url=http://gawker.com/chris-hughes-sells-the-new-republic-to-win-mccormack-1761546865|website=Gawker|accessdate=22 November 2016}}{{cite web|last1=Alpert|first1=Lukas I.|title=Chris Hughes Sells New Republic to Liberal Publisher Win McCormack|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/chris-hughes-sells-new-republic-to-liberal-publisher-win-mccormack-1456510500|website=Wall Street Journal|accessdate=22 November 2016}}

He received an A.B. from Harvard College and an MFA from the University of Oregon.{{cite web|title=Home|url=http://www.winmccormack.com/|accessdate=26 November 2017}}

In 2024, McCormack's chauffeurs were arrested for allegedly defrauding him of over $34 million over the course of seven years. McCormack is the heir to a midwest banking fortune, and claimed he did not often check charges made to his account.{{Cite web |last=Bernstein |first=Maxine |date=2024-01-25 |title=Chauffeurs accused of stealing $34M from Oregon publishing magnate in ‘colossal heist’ |url=https://oregonlive.com/crime/2024/01/new-republic-tin-house-publishing-magnate-fleeced-by-chauffeurs-for-34-million-feds-allege.html |access-date=2024-01-29 |website=oregonlive |language=en}}