{"id":30789,"date":"2013-05-03T14:47:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T14:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30789"},"modified":"2016-04-07T01:24:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T01:24:22","slug":"the-atlantic-wins-two-national-magazine-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30789","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic Wins Two National Magazine Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/personal\/archive\/2013\/05\/the-atlantic-wins-two-national-magazine-awards\/275529\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Atlantic Wins Two National Magazine Awards<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Atlantic<\/a><br \/>\nPress Releases<br \/>\n2013-05-02<\/p>\n<p><em>For media inquiries, please contact: <\/em><a href=\"mailto:nraabe@theatlantic.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Natalie Raabe<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0at \u00a0(202) 266-7533.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Washington, D.C. and New York, N.Y. (May 2, 2013)\u2014<em>The Atlantic<\/em> won two National Magazine Awards, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magazine.org\/about-asme\/pressroom\/asme-press-releases\/asme\/national-magazine-awards-2013-winners-announced\" target=\"_blank\">it was announced tonight<\/a> by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magazine.org\/asme\" target=\"_blank\">American Society of Magazine Editors<\/a> (ASME). Atlantic senior editor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ta-nehisi-coates\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/a> won in the Essays and Criticism category and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\" target=\"_blank\">TheAtlantic.com<\/a><\/em> was selected best Web site.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so happy for Ta-Nehisi and the entire team at <em>The Atlantic<\/em>. It&#8217;s wonderful to be recognized by our peers for excellence in one of our oldest journalistic forms, the essay, and one of our newest&#8211;the work we do every day on <em>TheAtlantic.com<\/em>,&#8221; said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlanticmedia.com\/scott-havens\/\" target=\"_blank\">M. Scott Havens<\/a>, president of The Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>Coates was honored in the Essays and Criticism category for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=24937\" target=\"_blank\">Fear of a Black President<\/a>,&#8221; published in the September 2012 issue. Marshaling history, original reporting, memoir, and a fierce but understated moral passion in advance of the 2012 election, Coates outlines the predicament constraining <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a>: wary of coming across as a politically untenable Angry Black Man, he must always strive\u2014as many professional African Americans must\u2014to appear &#8220;twice as good.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire press release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/personal\/archive\/2013\/05\/the-atlantic-wins-two-national-magazine-awards\/275529\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic Wins Two National Magazine Awards The Atlantic Press Releases 2013-05-02 For media inquiries, please contact: Natalie Raabe\u00a0at \u00a0(202) 266-7533. Washington, D.C. and New York, N.Y. (May 2, 2013)\u2014The Atlantic won two National Magazine Awards, it was announced tonight by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME). Atlantic senior editor Ta-Nehisi Coates won in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20],"tags":[14603,6000,6001],"class_list":["post-30789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-american-society-of-magazine-editors","tag-ta-nehisi-coates","tag-the-atlantic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46521,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30789\/revisions\/46521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}