By Drew Grant 6/22/12 9:00am

Media

Bring your baby to work day (The Atlantic)

The Real Reason Women ‘Can’t Have It All’

The Atlantic, your home for ladies complaining about how hard it is being ladies (We kid! Sort of!) had a polarizing essay this week by Anne-Marie Slaughter, entitled “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” Only seven months after Kate Bolick taught all us females that we didn’t have to settle for second best in the marriage department, we’re now getting the flip side of the coin: apparently it doesn’t matter how great our significant others are, because if you try to have a career and a kid in this economy, you’ll find yourself miserably torn between the two. And then you’ll chose your kids. Obviously.

Originally, we thought the simple solution would be to wait until your career goals are met until procreating, but as that New York cover story taught us, this  is probably an unhealthy excuse for desperate old people. (It also makes for way grosser images than a hot MILF breastfeeding her overgrown son.) Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 6/13/12 12:30pm

Notable Quotables

Being in the ‘Belly of the Beast’ at Huffington Post ‘Drained’ Jonah Peretti

In his long overdue Atlantic media diet, BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti called out the previous contributors to the column, the ones who claim to read The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times in print, every day, and say they are so embarrassed by how the Economists they never got around to reading pile up around the apartment.

He wrote:

“The main way I discover information is my Twitter feed and my Facebook news feed. One of the interesting things about this Media Diet column is if people were honest, I think they would give more credit to Facebook and Twitter, which can mean totally different things depending on who you are. But social is the new starting point.” Read More

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

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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 Kat Stoeffel 2/03/12 3:33pm

Changes

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Kate Julian Jumps to The Atlantic

Former New Yorker managing editor Kate Julian (who most recently ran Slate’s Double X) has been named a senior editor at The Atlantic. She will oversee the magazine’s “Dispatches” section and edit features. Oh and her office is next to something called the Roanoke Room. What else do you need to know? Read More

By Drew Grant 11/29/11 2:24pm

The Atlantic

Robert Wright: Journalist, non-Tweeter (via Bloggingheads.tv)

Robert Wright Joins TheAtlantic.Com As Senior Editor, Needs More Twitter Friends

New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer prize nominee Robert Wright is The Atlantic‘s latest digital hire. No, not The Atlantic Wire, just TheAtlantic.com. Mr. Wright has been penning for The Atlantic for 20 years, but has limited his editorial duties to The New Republic, The Sciences, and Wilson Quarterly.

According to the press release sent today, Mr. Wright’s new position at The Atlantic “will cover issues related to politics, foreign policy, science, religion, and philosophy, among other subjects. He will also supplement his writing with video conversations, a format he popularized on Bloggingheads.tv.”

So why doesn’t anyone want to be his Twitter buddy? Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 7/28/11 4:59pm

Changes

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Jennifer Barnett New Managing Editor at The Atlantic

Jennifer Barnett, most recently of Parks & Recreation magazine in Virginia, has been named managing editor of The Atlantic.

You may have noticed that her name is very similar to that of James Bennet, the magazine’s editor in chief. Hijinks will ensue, according to the memo from deputy editor Scott Stossel, in full below:

All: Read More