Jeffrey Goldberg on The Atlantic's past, present and future

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🗓️ 14 July 2022

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The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg talks about the magazine's decision to digitize its 165-year archive and what he noticed about the centuries-old articles. "We're not going to know ourselves if we don't know what we thought 10, 20, 30, 100 years ago," he says. Plus, Goldberg shares his new reporting about the author of "Where the Crawdads Sing," and discusses his coverage priorities heading into the 2024 election.

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0:00.0	What can we take away from a magazine's archives that span 165 years?
0:07.0	And why was it so important for the Atlantic to digitize those archives?
0:12.8	Those are a few of the questions for this week's Reliable Sources podcast. So let's cue the music.
0:19.6	I'm Brian Salter, and this weekly podcast is our chance to go more in-depth with media leaders and newsmakers.
0:27.4	Talking about the story behind the story and about how the media world works.
0:34.6	The Atlantic, of course, is one of the most prestigious magazines in the media world.
0:40.5	It has been published since the years before the Civil War.
0:45.2	But until recently, those archives, all of that content from 1857 up until 1995 was barely
0:53.4	accessible, was not online on theAtlantic.com.
0:58.3	So the magazine has changed that. It has now provided the incomplete archives, the good,
1:03.5	the bad, the ugly, the impossible to read. And as you're about to hear, it has opened up new
1:09.7	avenues for readers. And while we're talking about the Atlantic, it's been in the news for other
1:15.9	reasons recently, including for Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg's striking story, relating to the
1:21.6	new movie Where the Crawl Dad's Sing. I always enjoy talking to Goldberg on TV, on Sunday's
1:27.5	Reliable Sources. There's always so much more I want to ask him. So I invited him here on the
1:32.4	podcast to talk about the archives, his new reporting, and the state of the Atlantic and the magazine
1:38.7	business more broadly. So let's get to it. Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief of the Atlantic,
1:43.8	welcome to the podcast. Thanks for having me. We should begin at the very, very beginning since
1:49.2	we're talking about the archive. Take us back to the founding of the magazine. What were the
1:54.4	creators of the Atlantic trying to do? The creators of the Atlantic were trying to do two things.
2:00.2	And here we're talking about people like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Longfellow,
2:06.0	Oliver Wendell Holmes, a lot of people with complicated facial hair and three part names,
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