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Pardon the intrusion, however I’m asserting my proper (equivalent to it’s) as editor in chief to grab short-term management of The Atlantic Every day from Tom Nichols (who I think about is secretly grateful for this hijacking) with the intention to share excellent news about our journal. For the second yr in a row, The Atlantic has been named winner of the Nationwide Journal Award for Normal Excellence. That is the highest honor awarded by the American Society of Journal 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 Instances Journal.
We acquired information of this win final night time 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 stunning) absence of onstage slapping. Final yr, once we gained this similar award, I assumed we wouldn’t win it once more so shortly, however my usually 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. However first, please check out a few of the tales we’ve revealed in current days, tales that make me proud to work right here:
Notes From Final Evening
As a few of you understand, 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 Nationwide Journal Award for Function Writing for that cowl story as effectively, and this yr, she was once more a finalist, for her devastatingly realizing profile of Steve Bannon. In actual fact, lots of our writers have been Nationwide Journal 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 Curiosity class; Clint Smith’s shifting 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 Wooden’s good profile of the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was a finalist within the Profile Writing class.
We additionally gained the Greatest Print Illustration award for Sally Deng’s illustration for “My Escape From the Taliban,” by Bushra Seddique, and we have been a finalist within the Greatest Digital Illustration class. As longtime readers of The Atlantic are conscious, we have now been recognized for a lot of issues over time, however not particularly for aesthetic excellence. This can be a journal, in spite of everything, that didn’t embrace images for the primary 100 years of its existence (as a result of what’s the push?). Yet another be aware from final night time: Jerusalem Demsas, certainly one of our younger star writers, was named a winner of the ASME Subsequent Award, for probably the most promising journal journalists underneath 30. I’ve little doubt that Jerusalem will someday have my job, if my job hasn’t been outsourced to Skynet by the point she desires it.
It’s gratifying, in fact, to see Atlantic journalists obtain a lot recognition, however it isn’t significantly stunning. We realized some time in the past that the way in which to distinguish The Atlantic in a really crowded discipline is to make tales solely of the very best high quality and ambition. We generally fall wanting our goal, however not for lack of making an attempt. My objective at The Atlantic is to construct the best writers’ collective within the English language, and to encompass these writers with the perfect editors, artists, designers, and fact-checkers. This objective shouldn’t be an finish in itself. Solely by gathering collectively the perfect journalists in America can we fulfill our historic mission: To light up and encourage; to carry the highly effective to account; to face for the assumption that the American thought is value saving and refining; and to be, within the phrases of our founding manifesto, “of no celebration or clique,” to be unbiased in thoughts and spirit.
Tomorrow, Tom Nichols might be again (and will very effectively mock my “climb ev’ry mountain” rhetoric, which is his proper), so let me thank our most loyal readers for his or her assist, with out which we couldn’t pursue the form of excellence embodied by our good staff of journalists.
Learn our finalist tales:
In the present day’s Information
- 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 attainable indictment of the previous president.
- Monetary regulators testified earlier than the Home Monetary Companies committee in regards to the collapse of Silicon Valley Financial institution and Signature Financial institution.
- The Senate voted to repeal the 2002 decision that accredited the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 1991 decision authorizing army drive towards Iraq within the first Gulf Struggle. The invoice now goes to the Home.
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“The Gun”
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 article.
