Career

Since January 2009,Cohn has been the editorial director 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

Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...

, where he worked in the Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 bureau for 10 years. He covered the Supreme Court and the Justice Department

United States Department of Justice

The United States Department of Justice , is the United States federal executive department responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries.The Department is led by the Attorney General, who is nominated...

 for three years during the presidency of George H.W. Bush, and the Clinton White House

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

 from 1993 to 1996.[4] In 1996, he moved to California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 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

The Industry Standard

The Industry Standard is a news web site dedicated to technology business news, part of InfoWorld, a news web site covering technology in general...

 in San Francisco, before taking a job as executive editor at Wired magazine

Wired (magazine)

Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics...

, 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).

Awards

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

James Bennet

James Douglas Bennet is an American journalist. Since 2006, he has been the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.-Background and family:...

., (6) Washingtonian

Washingtonian (magazine)

Washingtonian is a monthly magazine distributed in the Washington, DC area since 1965. The magazine describes itself as "the magazine Washington lives by." The magazine's core focuses are local feature journalism, guide book-style articles, and real estate advice.-Editorial Content: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]

Education

Cohn grew up in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 and graduated from Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

. He has a Masters in the Study of Law from Yale Law School

Yale Law School

Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...

, where he was a Ford Foundation

Ford Foundation

The Ford Foundation is a private foundation incorporated in Michigan and based in New York City created to fund programs that were chartered in 1936 by Edsel Ford and Henry Ford....

Fellow.