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Bob Cohn - Bob Cohn is editorial director of Atlantic Digital. He has worked as executive editor at Wired and The Industry Standard and as a writer at Newsweek. More

Bob Cohn is editorial director of Atlantic Digital. He oversees editorial operations for TheAtlantic.com, The Atlantic Wire, and The Atlantic's mobile platforms.

Prior to joining TheAtlantic.com in January 2009, Cohn was for eight years the executive editor of Wired Magazine. He oversaw all editorial aspects of the magazine, helping to supervise a staff of 40 journalists and dozens of freelancers. Under his leadership, Wired was nominated seven times for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence and won the honor three times.

For nearly two years during the dot-com boom, Cohn was executive editor at The Industry Standard, a newsweekly covering the Internet economy. He directed a staff of writers and editors, planned and edited cover stories, and was in charge of editorial special projects, including the company's extensions into television, radio, international publishing, and new domestic magazines. During the late '90s, he worked four years as editor and, later, publisher of Stanford magazine, and as editorial director of the Stanford Alumni Association, overseeing the bimonthly magazine, the online department, electronic newsletters, and other communications programs.

Cohn began his journalism career at Newsweek, where he worked in the Washington bureau for 10 years. He served as the magazine's legal affairs correspondent, with responsibility for the Supreme Court, the Justice Department, and the FBI, and later was named the magazine's White House correspondent. He covered the presidency of Bill Clinton from 1993 to early 1996.

Cohn's work has been recognized with a variety of national awards for editing and writing. TheAtlantic.com won a Webby Award for Best Magazine in 2009 and in 2010 was nominated for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in two categories: Best Magazine Web Site and Magazine of the Year (Print/Digital). During his tenure at Wired, the magazine was nominated for 11 National Magazine Awards and won six, including the three citations for General Excellence. At Newsweek, where he shared in more than a dozen awards, he was honored with the American Bar Association's prestigious Silver Gavel Award for coverage of the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation process. At Stanford magazine, a story he wrote on the university's affirmative action policies was named best article of the year in college magazines. The next year, Stanford was named the best university publication in the country by Folio magazine.

Cohn graduated from Stanford with high honors and later earned a master's degree in the Study of Law from Yale Law School as a Ford Foundation Fellow. A native of Chicago, he lives with his wife and two daughters outside Washington, D.C.
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TheAtlantic.com, Reloaded

By Bob Cohn

Feb 25 2010, 9:25 PM ET Comment

The Web can be an awfully messy place. Starting, we'll admit, right here. With stories from the monthly magazine, posts from our staff Voices, more posts from our outside bloggers, regular online dispatches, and a generous serving of videos, podcasts, and interactive graphics, our site has grown faster than we can tend it. It got to the point where there was so much stuff on our pages that it was hard for users to find it all.

So this redesign has been a long time coming. And it's more than fresh coat of paint - it's a fresh start. Beginning with the new navigation you'll see on every page. The site is now organized by channel - along with old standbys like Politics, Business, and Food, you'll find new ones like Culture, International, National, and Science/Tech. All content on the site now resides in one of these seven channels, or on Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish. We hope this makes it easier for you to reach the stories you're looking for - and to discover pieces on your favorite subjects that you didn't know you were looking for. In the meantime, even as you navigate by channel you can also move through the site via your favorite Atlantic Voices: Sullivan, Marc Ambinder, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Clive Crook, James Fallows, Jeffrey Goldberg, and Megan McArdle.

You probably noticed that the home page looks different - new layout, new colors, new typefaces, new features. We're putting the most compelling stories of the day - our best news and analysis - in our new rotating carousel at the upper left of the page and in the stream of stories beneath it. In the center of the page, we're giving prominent placement to stories from The Atlantic Wire, our sister site dedicated to curating and aggregating the most provocative opinion journalism in the blogosphere, on the op-ed pages, and on cable TV. Over on the right, check out Other Works of Genius, where we point to photos, stories, lists, and ideas from around the Web - stuff we wish we'd thought of. (Take our product tour.)

Finally, we've done a lot of work to upgrade the site for users. A powerful new commenting technology will enhance our community. Better search, improved integration of social media, a new configuration of our servers - all this should make the site smoother and faster.

Our programmers, producers, and editors have done terrific work, but no doubt there are some bugs on the site. If you find something hinky, please send a note to techtrouble@theatlantic.com. We appreciate your help as we tidy up our corner of the Internet.



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