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 John Koblin 3/26/08 6:54pm

Atlantic Names New Publisher Jay Lauf

At the end of an otherwise ponderous event that the Atlantic hosted today at NYU on the coverage of celebrities (“Paris Hilton and Britney Spears–do they represent a new form of artist?” asked David Samuels, the moderator) Media Mob was tipped off to a little news: The magazine has hired a new publisher.

Justin Smith, Read More