By Kat Stoeffel 2/14/12 4:24pm

off the record

Atlantic

The Atlantic Cover Story Traveling Dinner Series Makes Its First Stop in New York

Last night Atlantic Media chairman David Bradley had a couple dozen of New York’s non-fashion elite to dinner at Eleven Madison Park, kicking off a new monthly series that aims to capture the engagement with Atlantic cover stories demonstrated online by Facebook recommendations in a more intimate, in-person format.

Unlike the ill-fated salons proposed by The Washington Post in 2009, lobbyists can’t buy a seat at these off-the-record dinners; The Atlantic picked up the tab. The aim of the series, which may move to Los Angeles, Chicago, Silicon Valley, or Washington, D.C., depending on the cover story’s content, appears more earnest. Read More

By Felix Gillette 5/05/10 1:36am

High Tide at ‘The Atlantic’

In the winter of 2009, David Bradley, the owner of the Atlantic Media Company, and Justin Smith, one of his top executives, met for a late-night dinner at Kinkead’s restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue to plot the opening gambits in a Beltway media war.

Mr. Bradley wanted to talk about the future of the National Journal, Read More

By Gabriel Sherman 6/19/06 12:00am

Harvard Prodigy Spends Bradley’s $4 Million; Alumni Await Magazine

“We don’t consider ourselves an alumni magazine in the traditional sense,” said Bom Kim, Harvard class of ’00 and the founder and president of 02138 magazine.

Mr. Kim’s embryonic magazine—named for the Harvard Square ZIP code—has nonetheless mastered one of the traditional roles: putting the touch on alumni. His principal backer is Atlantic Media boss Read More