The Modern Look, a Web Magazine for and by Young Professionals, to launch May 3

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A group of ambitious and forward-thinking young professionals will launch their new online publication, The Modern Look on Monday, May 3.

Acknowledging the difficulty of getting noticed as a young writer, journalist, or essayist, the editorial staff of TML, as it is more casually known, will publish high-quality work by those who have not yet been “discovered” by other outlets. Offering visibility as payment allows TML to operate on a shoestring budget, and to give its writers, in aggregate, something more than they would get by self-publishing or blogging.

TML also seeks an audience of smart young adults who want to read work that speaks to them in the voice of their own generation. TML’s mission statement sums up their goals and demonstrates the magazine’s mixed attitudes of seriousness and irreverence:

The Modern Look (TML) delivers feature stories, news and entertainment written by and for young professionals and other young adults.  This demographic overlap allows readers to read and hear their own voices in TML.  In other words, the readers and the writers come from the same stage of life.  This ain’t the grown-ups lecturing the kids. 

TML is a general interest publication that offers not only the readers but also its writers a place where they can venture into a literary journey of self discovery.  Through in-depth, fascinating features and coverage of arts, music, entertainment, sports, politics, lifestyles, and charitable causes, TML offers its readers a distinct look at the world as seen through the eyes of young adults.  TML also supports aspiring journalists, writers, musicians, actors, photographers, and humanitarians who want to develop their skills so that they may one day actually be paid for this shit. 

Ryan Mundaca, TML’s founder editor-in-chief, works for V-me Television in his other life, and has developed TML as a side project. One of Mundaca’s former journalism professors, Kevin Lerner, now a visiting assistant professor at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., praised Mundaca’s new publication: “It’s tough to get noticed as a young journalist, especially in the uncertain period that larger publications are going through right now. The Modern Look could go a long way in helping early-career journalists—and other writers and artists too—find their voices and an outlet for them.”

For more information, contact Ryan Mundaca: RyanMundaca@Themodernlook.com