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Pardon the intrusion, however I’m asserting my proper (resembling it’s) as editor in chief to grab momentary management of The Atlantic Daily from Tom Nichols (who I think about is secretly grateful for this hijacking) to be able to share excellent news about our journal. For the second yr in a row, The Atlantic has been named winner of the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. This is the highest honor awarded by the American Society of Magazine Editors, and it’s fairly a privilege to win, particularly given the standard of our fellow finalists, which included, amongst others, New York journal and The New York Times Magazine.
We obtained information of this win final evening at a ceremony in Manhattan, a ceremony that very a lot resembled the Oscars, aside from the virtually whole absence of glamor and full (and considerably shocking) absence of onstage slapping. Last yr, after we gained this identical award, I assumed we wouldn’t win it once more so rapidly, however my typically wonderful colleagues at The Atlantic have saved producing stellar journalism at such a ferocious tempo as to make us unignorable.
I’ll say a bit extra about this award, and what it means for The Atlantic and its readers, in a second. But first, please check out a few of the tales we’ve revealed in latest days, tales that make me proud to work right here:
Notes From Last Night
As a few of , The Atlantic has been been on a little bit of a dash recently: We’ve greater than doubled our variety of subscribers over the previous 5 years, and we not too long ago gained our first-ever Pulitzer Prizes: In 2021, for Ed Yong’s definitive protection of the pandemic, and final yr, for Jennifer Senior’s mesmerizing story in regards to the aftermath of 9/11. Jen gained the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing for that cowl story as properly, and this yr, she was once more a finalist, for her devastatingly realizing profile of Steve Bannon. In truth, lots of our writers had been National Magazine Award finalists this yr: Caitlin Dickerson’s magnificent and Herculean story uncovering the key historical past of the Trump administration’s family-separation coverage was a finalist within the Public Interest class; Clint Smith’s transferring exploration of reminiscence, slavery, and the Holocaust was a finalist in Columns and Essays; George Packer’s searing take a look at America’s abandonment of its Afghan allies was a finalist in Reporting; and Graeme Wood’s brilliant profile of the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was a finalist within the Profile Writing class.
We additionally gained the Best Print Illustration award for Sally Deng’s illustration for “My Escape From the Taliban,” by Bushra Seddique, and we had been a finalist within the Best Digital Illustration class. As longtime readers of The Atlantic are conscious, we’ve been recognized for a lot of issues over time, however not particularly for aesthetic excellence. This is {a magazine}, in any case, that didn’t embody images for the primary 100 years of its existence (as a result of what’s the frenzy?). One extra word from final evening: Jerusalem Demsas, one in every of our younger star writers, was named a winner of the ASME Next Award, for probably the most promising journal journalists below 30. I’ve little doubt that Jerusalem will in the future have my job, if my job hasn’t been outsourced to Skynet by the point she needs it.
It is gratifying, in fact, to see Atlantic journalists obtain a lot recognition, however it’s not significantly shocking. We realized some time in the past that the way in which to distinguish The Atlantic in a really crowded subject is to make tales solely of the best high quality and ambition. We typically fall wanting our goal, however not for lack of attempting. My aim at The Atlantic is to construct the best writers’ collective within the English language, and to encompass these writers with the easiest editors, artists, designers, and fact-checkers. This aim isn’t an finish in itself. Only by gathering collectively the most effective journalists in America can we fulfill our historic mission: To illuminate and encourage; to carry the highly effective to account; to face for the assumption that the American concept is price saving and refining; and to be, within the phrases of our founding manifesto, “of no party or clique,” to be impartial in thoughts and spirit.
Tomorrow, Tom Nichols will likely be again (and should very properly mock my “climb ev’ry mountain” rhetoric, which is his proper), so let me thank our most loyal readers for his or her help, with out which we couldn’t pursue the type of excellence embodied by our good staff of journalists.
Read our finalist tales:
Today’s News
- The Manhattan grand jury listening to the hush-money case involving Donald Trump will reportedly break for 2 weeks in April, which can push again the potential indictment of the previous president.
- Financial regulators testified earlier than the House Financial Services committee in regards to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
- The Senate voted to repeal the 2002 decision that accredited the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 1991 decision authorizing navy power in opposition to Iraq within the first Gulf War. The invoice now goes to the House.
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By Clint Smith
the gun heard the primary shot /
the gun thought it was a bursting pipe /
the gun heard the second shot and the third /
and the fourth /
the gun realized this was not a pipe
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Isabel Fattal contributed to this text.