Kate Bolick's November Atlantic cover story, All the Single Ladies, will be extended into a book that was bought by Crown's Molly Stern at auction last week, Publisher's Marketplace reports. Janklow & Nesbit's Tina Bennett represented the book, called Among the Suitors: Single Women I Have Loved. It develops a Read More
Former New Yorker managing editor Kate Julian (who most recently ran Slate's Double X) has been named a senior editor at The Atlantic. She will oversee the magazine's "Dispatches" section and edit features. Oh and her office is next to something called the Roanoke Room. What else do you need to know? Read More
New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer prize nominee Robert Wright is The Atlantic's latest digital hire. No, not The Atlantic Wire, just TheAtlantic.com. Mr. Wright has been penning for The Atlantic for 20 years, but has limited his editorial duties to The New Republic, The Sciences, and Wilson Quarterly.
According to the press release sent today, Mr. Wright's new position at The Atlantic "will cover issues related to politics, foreign policy, science, religion, and philosophy, among other subjects. He will also supplement his writing with video conversations, a format he popularized on Bloggingheads.tv."
So why doesn't anyone want to be his Twitter buddy?
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Richard Lawson, Gawker's entertainment writer and TV recapper extraordinaire, has taken his leave of Nick Denton's media conglomerate for the second time in the past two years. He will be joining another Gawker ex-pat, former editor in chief Gabriel Snyder at The Atlantic Wire, where Mr. Lawson will be a senior writer for entertainment and culture.
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ICM has signed yet another East Coast news outlet as a client, further establishing itself as the primary interlocutor between the impoverished ranks of freelance magazine writers and giant pots of gold shimmering on the other side of the continental divide in Hollywood. The Atlantic will now be a major motion picture. We dread the Read More
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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Say this, good or bad, for The Atlantic--its left hand does not seem to know what its right hand is doing. The magazine's new story about Gawker--getting buzz already for Nick Denton's note that he wouldn't have clarified the Christine O'Donnell story--seems unaware of The Atlantic's own aggregation efforts. "The 'reporting' that staff Read More
Earlier this month, The Atlantic shocked many by announcing that, for the first time in decades, they had made some money on an actual smart-person magazine. To what strategy did it owe this windfall of profit, which totaled a respectable $1.8 million? Why, the Internet, apparently! In 2010 digital advertising for The Atlantic jumped Read More
President Obama's address to the nation, delivered last night from the Tuscon, Arizona hospital where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is recovering from Saturday's tragic shooting, has been lauded basically across the board.
The Atlantic published the reaction of Pulitzer Prize-winning Park Slope novelist Michael Chabon, however, and he voiced his initial lack of enthusiasm with Read More
Last week James Fallows introduced a brilliant little contest at Atlantic.com. Readers were asked to submit their favorite cables from the 250,000 secret government documents leaked by Wikileaks.
Turns out this was just a genius ploy for some crowd-sourced labor. Now Atlantic.com is making use of the best cables as part of their CableGate Chronicles, Read More
The National Journal's website, once read only by D.C. pols willing to pony up the steep subscription fee, now has a set date when it will ease its paywall and present content to a larger readership.
After a summer of big name hires and a reinvigorated newsroom, the politics publication — which operates under Read More
Atlantic Media Company president Justin Smith announced yesterday that Scott Havens, who has been one of the masterminds of The Atlantic's growth online, will be taking over digital strategy for the National Journal Group as well.
Mr. Havens is moving into newly created position, vice president of digital strategy and operations, "to lead and implement our Read More
Newsweek economics editor Dan Gross is leaving the magazine for Yahoo, according to Joe Pompeo. Mr. Gross, formerly of The New York Times and currently a columnist for Slate, will likely be edting Yahoo's Finance page. He follows the most recent departures, Newsweek editorial director Mark Miller, Gabriel Snyder and Geoff Reiss, out Read More
The National Journal announced yet another high-profile hire earlier today: chief White House correspondent Major Garret from Fox News.
National Journal editor-in-chief Ron Fournier called Mr. Garrett the embodiment of the team he's building in Washington, "a fierce competitor on his beat, and a good and decent man."
Earlier this week, Mr. Fournier scooped up Washington veteran Read More
The National Journal has added another ace to its increasingly stacked deck of Washington talent. Veteran Matt Cooper has joined the aggressively relaunching Atlantic Media-owned National Journal Group as managing editor. He will also lead a major beat team that has yet to be determined, according to a release this morning.
"Matt Cooper joins NJG. Happy Read More
