Founded last year. Built for the next hundred.

Strait Media Group is a Detroit-based media holding company. We own and operate a small portfolio of editorial, music, and creative brands — built one at a time, in the city we live in, at a pace the work actually rewards. The name is a nod to the thing Detroit was named for: le détroit, the strait. A narrow passage that connects larger waters. That is, as much as anything, how we think about the work we publish.

Detroit is not a set piece for us. It's where the company is legally domiciled, where the work is made, and where the artists and writers we back already are. A century ago, this city built the institutions that most of the country still runs on — and then it was left for dead a half dozen times. It's still here. We take that as instruction rather than nostalgia.

The portfolio is small by design. A journal, a record label, a cinematic DJ platform, and a creative house opening later this year. We're not building a content network. We're building four brands we'd be proud to hand to the next person, and a company that keeps the lights on while they do their work.

If you're a writer, artist, editor, or operator who wants to make something that lasts — or if you're a publication, label, or small business that wants to join the group — we want to meet you. You can reach us at [email protected].