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David Bradley
David Bradley is the Chairman and owner of Atlantic Media Company.
Before entering media, David founded and owned two (now public) research companies - The Advisory Board Company and The Corporate Executive Board Company. With 50,000 applicants each year, the enterprises are the largest employers of young professional talent in the Washington region. David was a Fulbright scholar in the Philippines, serves on the boards of the Council on Foreign Relations and KIPP DC, and is a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.
David graduated from Swarthmore College, received an MBA from Harvard Business School, and holds a JD from Georgetown University Law Center.
Justin B. Smith
Justin B. Smith is President of the Atlantic Media Company, overseeing leading thought-leadership brands The Atlantic, National Journal, CongressDaily, The Hotline and Government Executive.
Smith joined Atlantic Media in 2007 as President of Atlantic Consumer Media. He spearheaded a dramatic revitalization of The Atlantic brand-increasing its audience and influence, enhancing its industry-leading digital and events businesses and generating double digit revenue growth in 2009. In early 2010, Atlantic Media Chairman David Bradley promoted Smith to President of Atlantic Media Company, adding the National Journal Group and Government Executive divisions to his portfolio.
Smith is the former President and Publisher of THE WEEK magazine, where he introduced the US edition in 2001. He came to THE WEEK from The Economist Group where he held corporate strategy and management positions in London, Hong Kong and New York.
Smith attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and worked for the US Department of State in West Africa and Washington DC. Smith began his career in media at the International Herald Tribune in Hong Kong and Paris. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the founder of Breaking Media LLC, the Bali Purnati Center for The Arts, and the Ouagadougou Education Project. Smith lives with his wife and two children in Washington DC.
John Fox Sullivan
John Fox Sullivan is the Publisher at Large of Atlantic Media Company. John joined National Journal as Publisher in 1975, later becoming President and CEO of the National Journal Group and more recently served as CEO of Atlantic Media Company. Prior to joining National Journal, John was Assistant to the Publisher of Newsweek and Assistant Managing Director of Newsweek's International Edition.
A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, John received his B.A. from Yale University and his MBA in Economics and Public Policy from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business.
Elizabeth Keffer
Elizabeth Keffer is Vice President of The Atlantic and President of Atlantic LIVE. As President of Atlantic Live, the events arm of The Atlantic, she oversees events ranging from small, private "Salon Dinners," to larger panel discussions and Town Hall gatherings, to The Atlantic's Aspen Ideas Festival. She was the company's lead executive in creating the Atlantic/Aspen Institute partnership, producing the Aspen Ideas Festival and the Aspen Health Forum.
Previously, Elizabeth served as the publisher of The Atlantic and Executive Vice President, Atlantic Media Group, where she oversaw advertising, marketing and corporate partnerships at The Atlantic, National Journal, Congress Daily and Government Executive. During this period, she led the formation of two key partnerships: Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal, and the National Journal-MSNBC politics partnership.
Elizabeth graduated from Brown University and has completed executive programs in sales force management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and in finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Jay Lauf
Jay Lauf joined The Atlantic in March 2008 as VP, Publisher, overseeing sales and marketing efforts for the acclaimed publication. He recruited a 25 person, New York-based integrated sales and marketing team.
During his tenure, The Atlantic has enjoyed considerable success across several fronts. The Atlantic sales team, under Lauf's direction set new all-time benchmarks for ad revenue both in print and online. The July/August 2009 issue was the largest in the magazine's 152-year history a mark that he and his team reset in July/August 2010 and then reset again in November 2010. Under Lauf's stewardship, 2009 digital revenue increased 115% during one of the most difficult years for advertising in history.
The media industry has taken note of Lauf's accomplishments - he was named one of Media Industry Newsletter's "21 Most Intriguing People in Media" for 2009. In 2010 The Atlantic debuted at #3 on AdWeek's "Hot List" and later that year The Atlantic debuted at #2 on Ad Age's "A-List" while Lauf and Atlantic Media Co president, Justin Smith were named Ad Age's "Publishing Executives of the Year"
Lauf joined The Atlantic from Wired, where he served progressively since 2001 as advertising director, associate publisher and publisher. During his tenure with Wired, Lauf was instrumental in the title's reinvigoration following 2001's dot-com collapse. While at Wired, he won the coveted "Top Performance" Award at Conde Nast in 2006 and Wired landed on AdWeek's Hot List in 2007 after successive years of double digit ad growth.
A graduate of Connecticut College, Lauf also studied English Literature and Law at Durham University in the United Kingdom.
Bruce Gottlieb
Bruce Gottlieb is the General Counsel of Atlantic Media Company.
Before joining Atlantic Media, Bruce served for five years at the Federal Communications Commission, most recently as Chief Counsel and Senior Legal Advisor to Chairman Julius Genachowski, where his responsibilities included managing the Commission.s overall policy agenda. He has worked as a communications and appellate lawyer in private practice, representing clients before the Supreme Court and at all levels of the federal judiciary. Prior to attending law school, Bruce was a staff writer at Slate and contributor to publications such as The New Republic and The New York Times Magazine
Bruce is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and clerked for Judge David S. Tatel of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Timothy Hartman
Tim Hartman is the General Manager of Government Executive Media Group, which includes Government Executive magazine and its web site, federal technology web site Nextgov.com, and Government Executive's research division, the Government Business Council.
Tim joined Government Executive in 2007 to manage new product development. In March 2008, he oversaw the successful launch of Nextgov.com, which quickly became the leading federal technology web site. Tim also spearheaded the re-launch of Government Business Council, which today counts as one of the company's fastest growing businesses.
Tim has been with Atlantic Media Company in various roles since October 2001. He graduated from James Madison University with degrees in Russian Language and English Literature.
EDITORIAL
James Bennet
James Bennet is Editor of The Atlantic. Before joining The Atlantic staff, James was the Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times. During his three years in Israel, his coverage of the Middle East conflict was widely acclaimed for its balance and sensitivity. His much-lauded long-form writing for The New York Times Magazine was responsible for catching the eye of David Bradley during his year-long search for a new editor.
James began his journalism career at The Washington Monthly. Prior to his work in Jerusalem, he served as the Times' White House correspondent and was preparing to join its Beijing bureau when he was offered the Atlantic editorship. James is a graduate of Yale University.
Ron Fournier
Ron Fournier is the first editor responsible for editorial strategy and execution for all of the National Journal Group products across all platforms: web, print, video and live events. Working with the Associated Press for 20 years, Ron was most recently Washington Bureau Chief. Starting with a Little Rock posting, covering Bill Clinton's second term as governor, he moved to Washington to report on the Clinton White House. Fournier has won numerous awards for his work, including the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for coverage of the 2000 elections and a four-time winner of the prestigious White House Correspondents' Association Merriman Smith Memorial Award.
Ronald Brownstein
Ronald Brownstein, a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of presidential campaigns, is National Journal Group's Editorial Director. Brownstein is in charge of long-term editorial strategy for the group, which includes National Journal, The Hotline, Congress Daily, The Almanac of American Politics and Global Security Newswire. He also writes a weekly column for National Journal and regularly contributes other pieces for National Journal Group and The Atlantic, and coordinates political coverage and activities across publications produced by Atlantic Media.
Prior to joining Atlantic Media, Brownstein, was the National Affairs Columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He has also served as the Times' National Political Correspondent and the author of the weekly Washington Outlook column. Mr. Brownstein is a National Journal alumnus, having served as the magazine's White House and National Politics Correspondent from 1983-1986, and then as its West Coast Correspondent through 1989. He appears regularly on MSNBC programs, including Hardball, Andrea Mitchell Reports and Morning Joe, and previously served as a political analyst for CNN from 1998 through 2004. He also appears regularly on Meet the Press, and This Week with George Stephanopoulos and previously served as a regular panelist on Face the Nation.
Tim Clark
Timothy Clark is Editor and President of Government Executive. Tim has spent his entire career in journalism studying and writing about government. He helped found National Journal, and went on to launch Empire State Report, a monthly magazine about politics and government in New York. He returned to Government Executive in 1987.
During his tenure at Government Executive, Tim founded the annual Excellence in Government Conference, and various awards programs, including the Service to America Medals program now run by the Partnership for Public Service. He is moderator of Government Executive's Leadership Breakfast series, whose guests in 2007 included Comptroller General David Walker and four members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Tim earned his B.A. from Harvard University.
Tom Shoop
Tom Shoop is Editor of Government Executive. Prior to being named Editor in 2007, Tom spent six years with the magazine writing feature stories on federal management issues, interviewing the Vice President, the White House chief of staff, and various Cabinet secretaries. Tom was promoted to Executive Editor in 1995. The following year, he led the team that launched GovernmentExecutive.com, the award-winning web-based daily news publication for federal managers and executives.
Prior to joining Government Executive, Tom was a supervising editor at Macmillan Publishing in New York.
Tom holds a B.A. from Carleton College.
