Unique storytelling in Nobody
Independent magazines are often built around friendships, but with Nobody it was the magazine that instigated the friendship. As they tell it, Sami Emory and Tessa Love were a pair of Californian journalists working in Berlin when they met at a networking event in 2018. Despite being slightly wary of each other at first, they bonded over their shared frustration that as freelancers they couldn’t tell the sort of stories they wanted to, and on that first night the idea for a print magazine called Nobody was born.
Of course it took considerably longer for the magazine to make its way into the world – the first issue was published in 2022 and we delivered the third annual instalment to our subscribers in July. But their mission remains the same as on that first night, providing a space where journalists can tell stories that wouldn’t make it into more mainstream publications. Sami and Tessa spoke to us for our Stack Magazine Club at the end of last month, and in the video below you can see them talking about their passion for quality storytelling, their expansive use of themes, and the way their friendship has grown as the project has progressed.
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