The Atlantic president M. Scott Havens wrote to his staff yesterday evening to assure them that the advertorial kinks were being worked out in the wake of the outcry–and subsequent apology by the magazine–following The Atlantic’s pro-Scientology sponsored content earlier this week.

“It seems fitting to quote one of our founders, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who once said ‘Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail,’” Mr. Havens wrote in the staff memo a tipster sent us this morning. “This isn’t the first, nor the last time that WE will make mistakes, but what is important is how we handle them and what we learn from these moments.” Read More