Kinsley Joins Atlantic as Media Columnist and EIC of New Site

FBDC has learned this morning that Michael Kinsley will join The Atlantic as a media columnist and as the editor-in-chief of a new website launching in 2010.

Kinsley was the founding editor of Slate and has been editor of TNR and Harper’s, and editor of LAT‘s opinion pages. Among other things, he was also co-host of CNN’s “Crossfire.”

In a release, Atlantic Consumer Media President Justin Smith said: “As both an editor and a columnist, Michael has long been at the vanguard of publishingÂ’s digital transformation” and, “We are thrilled to welcome him and his considerable talents to the Atlantic Media family.”

Atlantic media chief David Bradley’s memo obtained by mediabistro is after the jump…

My Colleagues:

With this writing, I want to let you know of some great success that Justin Smith and James Bennet have had of late.

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