The Atlantic President Bob Cohn Is Stepping Down in September

Accepts resident fellowship at Harvard University's Institute of Politics

Bob Cohn, the president of the national magazine The Atlantic, is leaving the publication on Sept. 7.

Cohn, who has been at The Atlantic for more than a decade and was named Adweek’s Publishing Executive of the Year in 2018, has accepted a three-month fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics and is using the opportunity “as a natural off-ramp” from his time at the publication, Atlantic Media chairman David Bradley told staff in a memo today.

“Bob

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