Bob Cohn (born April 18, 1963) is an American journalist.
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Since January 2009,Cohn has been the editorial director [1] of Atlantic Digital, where he oversees TheAtlantic.com and The Atlantic Wire, as well as overall editorial strategy for digital products.[2,3].
Cohn began his journalism career at Newsweek, where he worked in the Washington, D.C. bureau for 10 years. He covered the Supreme Court and the Justice Department for three years during the presidency of George H.W. Bush, and the Clinton White House from 1993 to 1996.[4] In 1996, he moved to California to be editor and publisher of Stanford Magazine, the university’s publication for alumni and friends. He then worked two years as executive editor of The Industry Standard in San Francisco, before taking a job as executive editor at Wired magazine, where he worked from 2001 to 2008.[5]
At Wired, Cohn helped the magazine find a mainstream following and earn national recognition. Wired won three National Magazine Awards for General Excellence during his tenure.
Moving to The Atlantic, Cohn joined a wave of print journalists looking for experience online. TheAtlantic.com won a Webby Award for Magazine Sites in 2009, and in 2010 was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence, Digital and for Magazine of the Year (print and web combined).
Cohn has received wide recognition for his work on TheAtlantic.com. In 2009, Cohn was named a Huffington Post Game Changer in Media, along with Atlantic editor James Bennet., (6) Washingtonian selected Cohn as one of its “Movers and Shakers Behind the Scenes, “ [7] while GQ picked him as one of “50 Most Powerful People in Washington.” [8]
Cohn grew up in Chicago and graduated from Stanford University. He has a Masters in the Study of Law from Yale Law School, where he was a Ford Foundation Fellow.
[2] http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/mixed-media/2008/11/10/atlantic-raids-wired-for-new-web-czar
[3] http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a10986.asp
[4]The Internship Bible, 10th edition, by Princeton Review, Mark Oldman, Samer Hamadeh
[5] http://valleywag.gawker.com/5082160/wireds-no-2-editor-to-take-over-the-atlantics-website
[7] http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/12512.html
[8] http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/200911/50-most-powerful-people-in-dc#slide=39