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Washington, D.C.--Atlantic Media Company today issued a call for entries for this year's Michael Kelly Award. The deadline for submissions is February 4, 2013. The Michael Kelly Award recognizes writers and editors at U.S.-based newspapers, magazines, and Web sites whose work exemplifies a quality that animated Michael Kelly's own career: the fearless pursuit and expression of truth. The award was established by Atlantic Media Company to honor Kelly, who died in… More »

Washington D.C.--The Atlantic today announced the launch of a new tablet-optimized web-based browsing experience for The Atlantic Wire, the magazine brand's news- and opinion-tracking site. From a tablet, the new experience is available at touch.theatlanticwire.com and features a swipe-to-browse user interface and the option to save stories and personalized content recommendations based on pre-selected areas of interest. The free ad-supported app was built in… More »

Washington, D.C., and New York, N.Y.--Following a year of editorial and business records, The Atlantic closed out 2012 by significantly increasing its overall revenue and audience reach, exceeding 2011's then-record performance in these key metrics. After posting its first profit in recent memory in 2010, the 155-year-old magazine brand was profitable for the third straight year as well. In addition to this record performance, for the first time in The… More »

The feature stories, dispatches, columns, and essays in The Atlantic's January/February 2013 issue include: What's Inside America's Banks?More than four years after the 2008 financial crisis, public confidence in banks is as low as ever. Even sophisticated investors describe big banks as "black boxes" that may still be concealing enormous risks--the sort that could take down the economy. Again. A close investigation of the financial statements of Wells Fargo, one… More »

 Washington, D.C.--Technology changes year to year, phone to phone, quarter to quarter. Here at The Atlantic, our writers like to focus on the ideas that animate that change, the people who make it happen, and the users whose lives it transforms.To mark another year of profound change, The Atlantic is publishing an ebook anthology of the best technology writing featured on its Tech Channel in 2012. Edited by Atlantic senior editor Alexis Madrigal, along with staff… More »

Washington, D.C. and New York, N.Y.--The Atlantic received three "Hot List" honors from veteran industry publication Ad Week today: Best Magazine to Be Seen Reading on the Subway, Editor of the Year for James Bennet, and Publisher of the Year for Jay Lauf. Ad Week's annual list honors "media brands and media people thriving despite competition, market forces and...the ever elusive consumer" and is based on a number of factors, including: "advertising business,… More »

The feature stories, dispatches, columns, essays, and original fiction in The Atlantic's December 2012 issue include: The Insourcing Boom. After years of offshore production, General Electric is moving much of its far-flung appliance-manufacturing operations back home. And the company is not alone. Charles Fishman explores the startling, sustainable, just-getting-started return of industry to the United States. As he reports, the offshoring rush of the past decade… More »

Washington, DC and New York, NY--In October, The Atlantic set new all-time highs in digital advertising revenue and traffic, outperforming all other previous benchmarks. On the sales front, digital ad revenue increased over last year's then-record performance, set in October 2011, by 28 percent. This marks The Atlantic's best digital revenue showing in a single month. Traffic to TheAtlantic.com and TheAtlanticWire.com hit new all-time highs as well, 12.5 million… More »

Washington, D.C--Launching today on TheAtlantic.com is The Sexes Channel, part of a multiplatform Atlantic initiative--online, in print, and in live events--that will explore how the changing balance of power between men and women is transforming society--from the home to the workplace, from education to commerce, and from politics to public policy. The Atlantic has long covered this terrain, but with the launch of the Sexes Channel online, writers and editors will… More »

The feature stories, dispatches, columns, essays, and original fiction in The Atlantic's November issue include: The Bloomberg Way.As part of The Atlantic's Brave Thinkers list, the magazine's annual guide to the people risking everything in pursuit of big ideas, James Bennet sits down with Michael Bloomberg for a typically candid interview. The New York City mayor discusses his soda ban, approval ratings, and the 2012 presidential race, among many other topics:On… More »

Washington, D.C.--The Atlantic, in partnership with the Aspen Institute and the Newseum, will present the fourth annual Washington Ideas Forum on November 14 and 15, 2012. The week after Election Day, the event will draw together leading voices from government, business, and media for two days of conversation and debate on the challenges facing the President and Congress, and what lies ahead for the country.An early sample of confirmed participants includes: Bill… More »

The feature stories, dispatches, columns, and essays in The Atlantic's October issue include: The New Price of American Politics. Not since the Gilded Age has our politics been so wide open to corporate contributions and donations from secret sources. And the new era of big money has just begun. Jim Bopp, the ideological force behind Citizens United, believes this is a good thing--the more money, the better, he says. Reformers like Trevor Potter, who has helped… More »

Washington, D.C., and New York, N.Y.--Experiencing strong traffic across all topic terrains--from politics to technology to health--The Atlantic's three digital properties posted a record-setting month in August: TheAtlantic.com drew 10.8 million unique visitors, TheAtlanticWire.com attracted 3.3 million unique visitors, and the TheAtlanticCities.com broke 1 million unique visitors for the first time since launching less than a year ago."We had a terrific August… More »

Washington, D.C.--As Barack Obama contends for a second term in office, The Atlantic is publishing "The Obama Presidency, Explained," an ebook expanding on James Fallows's March 2012 essay, taking historical measure of our 44th president.According to Fallows, a longtime analyst of the presidency, two very different narratives vie to define Obama's first term: One sees him as a skillful political player and policy visionary--a chess master who consistently sees… More »

The feature stories, dispatches, columns, and original fiction in The Atlantic's September issue include:"Slugfest: Obama versus Romney"This year's presidential debates could have as decisive an effect on the election outcome as any since 1980, if not 1960. In The Atlantic's quadrennial preview of these head-to-head matchups, James Fallows takes stock of the strengths and weaknesses each candidate brings to the podium. According to Fallows, a longtime analyst of… More »

Starting Today on TheAtlantic.com, Readers Can Nominate Individuals Showing Moral or Intellectual Courage; Winner to Be Featured in the November Issue, Alongside Editors' Picks for 2012Washington, D.C.--Every November, The Atlantic's "Brave Thinkers" issue highlights people risking their fortunes, reputations, and, in some cases, lives in pursuit of big ideas that upend the established order. Starting today on TheAtlantic.com, readers can nominate their own Brave… More »

The feature stories, dispatches, columns, and original fiction in The Atlantic's annual Ideas issue include: "Why Women Still Can't Have It All"It's time to stop fooling ourselves, says Anne-Marie Slaughter: the women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman, rich, or self-employed. Slaughter, who was the first female director of policy planning at the State Department, serving from 2009 to 2011, left her foreign-policy dream job… More »

Washington, D.C.--Darhil Crooks has been named creative director of The Atlantic, Editor in Chief James Bennet announced today. In this role, Crooks will oversee art direction of The Atlantic across its platforms: in print, online, and on mobile and tablet devices. He will also oversee the look of The Atlantic's sister brands, The Atlantic Wire and Atlantic Cities. "Darhil's imagination and passion for ideas-driven work make him the perfect creative force for… More »

Washington, D.C. -- The Aspen Institute and The Atlantic announce their eighth annual celebration of ideas with the 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival. In Aspen, Colorado, from June 27 through July 3, more than 250 of the most interesting thinkers and leaders from around the country and the world will gather to discuss their work, the issues that inspire them, and their ideas. The week's programming will span a vast range of critical topics such as the economy, the… More »

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