Jennifer Barnett, most recently of Parks & Recreation magazine in Virginia, has been named managing editor of The Atlantic. You may have noticed that her name is very similar to that of James Bennet, the magazine's editor in chief. Hijinks will ensue, according to the memo from deputy editor Scott Stossel, in full below:
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Ad Age has named James Bennet, editor in chief at The Atlantic, their Editor of the Year. Bennet has been at the magazine since 2006, when owner David Bradley tapped him for the top post. Bennet was a longtime Times reporter without tons of editorial experience; Bradley called him "a profound and extreme Read More
"What's the cost of being a nerd?" read the neon sign that greeted guests emerging from the elevator at Justin Smith's apartment in Tribeca last night.
Provocative though it was, that question was not what had brought Bonnie Fuller, John Stossel, Adam Moss, Nick Denton, Sigourney Weaver, Ira Glass, Read More
The Atlantic's press reps just sent out a release announcing the hiring of Bob Cohn as editorial director of the 151-year-old magazine's Web site. Mr. Cohn, most recently Executive Editor of Wired, will be filling the newly-created job in The Atlantic's Washington, D.C. offices.
In a statement, Atlantic editor James Bennet said:
'Bob Read More
But it was an unseasonably warm autumn night, the moon was full, the Dow had recovered a historic 936 points the Read More
The Atlantic's PR reps just sent out some PDFs of the magazine's new look, as overseen and conceived by editor James Bennet and Pentagram's Michael Bierut.
In an essay in the November issue of the 151-year-old magazine, Mr. Beirut writes:
I was both honored and daunted to receive the commission to create a new design Read More
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg is reporting on his blog that photographer Jill Greenberg has been dropped by her photo agency, Vaughan Hannigan Artists. A call to the agency by Media Mob confirmed the news.
As you may have already read elsewhere, Ms. Greenberg created controversy by posting unflattering and Read More
What's the statute of limitations on being a young talent to watch? Next week, former prodigy Adam Moss, 48, will use New York magazine to anoint the newest Wunderkindergarten class of editors. According to sources with knowledge of the project, the photo spread, with accompanying text by Carl Swanson, will include The New Republic's Read More
The piece that Judith Miller is working on for the Atlantic appears to be a profile of Libya's Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, according to sources familiar with the magazine or with Miller's activities. Earlier this week, Miller told the Media Mob she had recently returned from the Middle East. According to one source, Miller's Atlantic Read More
A source at the Atlantic confirms that former New York Times reporter/journalistic privilege test case Judith Miller is working on a piece for the magazine. The possibility of Miller's return to writing was first reported yesterday by Gawker. According to the Atlantic source, Miller is working on a reported piece--and not a first-person account Read More
