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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.
Jay Brodsky
Jay Brodsky is the Chief Information Officer of Atlantic Media Company. In his role as CIO, Jay heads all technology efforts, including a rapidly expanding web-development operation.
Prior to his arrival at Atlantic Media, Jay held the role of Director of Digital Media at National Public Radio, where he oversaw application development, systems infrastructure, and audio production at their online properties. He also spent eleven years at Tribune Media Services, the content-licensing and entertainment-data aggregation unit of Chicago-based Tribune Company, where he rose to the level of Vice President for Technology. Jay has served as General Manager for NewsCom, a web-based photo-licensing business, co-developed an industry-standard XML protocol, and developed a suite of content products for web syndication.
Jay holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Suzanne Clark
Suzanne Clark is President of National Journal Group, which includes National Journal, NationalJournal.com, CongressDaily, The Hotline, and The Almanac of American Politics.
Before joining NJG, Suzanne was the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of the US Chamber of Commerce, the world's largest business federation representing more than three million businesses across the United States. While at the Chamber, Suzanne also headed two stand-alone affiliates-as the Managing Director of its public policy think tank, the National Chamber Foundation, and as President of the Business Civic Leadership Center, a governance and educational resource to the business community.
Suzanne earned her B.A. and MBA from Georgetown University.
Elaine Erchak
Elaine Erchak is the Chief Financial Officer of Atlantic Media Company. Elaine spent the first 10 years of her career in public accounting first at Arthur Andersen and later at Ernst & Young where she worked in the audit profession serving a variety of clients and becoming a Certified Public Accountant.
Elaine graduated from the University of Virginia.
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.
Christopher Murphy
Chris Murphy is General Counsel and Executive Director for Human Resources of Atlantic Media Company. In this role, Chris manages the company's diverse legal work and oversees employee recruitment, training, benefits, and organizational culture.
Before joining Atlantic Media, Chris founded and led City Year Washington, DC, the local chapter of the AmeriCorps national service program that unites diverse 17-24 year olds for a demanding year of full-time community service, leadership development, and civic engagement. Prior to founding City Year Washington, DC, Chris was an attorney at Hogan & Hartson with a practice focused on commercial litigation and antitrust law. He also worked on Capitol Hill working for Senator Ted Kennedy and served on the start-up team for President Clinton's AmeriCorps initiative.
Chris is a graduate of Harvard University and received his JD from the Georgetown University Law Center where he served as Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.
Justin Smith
Justin Smith is President of Atlantic Consumer Media overseeing all aspects of Atlantic Media Company's consumer properties, which include The Atlantic, TheAtlantic.com, and Atlantic LIVE.
Prior to joining Atlantic Media, Justin was the founding President and Publisher of THE WEEK magazine, which he led since the US edition was introduced in 2001. He came to THE WEEK from The Economist Group where he served in a variety of roles including Assistant to the CEO for Global Corporate Strategy, Director of US and Asia/Pacific Corporate Development, and founding President of CFO.com.
Justin began his career in media at the International Herald Tribune and also worked for the US Department of State in West Africa and Washington, DC. He graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
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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.
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.
Charlie Green
Charlie Green is Editor of National Journal and Editorial Director of National Journal Group. He joined the magazine in 1997 as Deputy Editor and in 1999 was named Editor. In 2007, Charlie assumed oversight of online editorial operations.
Before coming to National Journal, Charlie spent 17 years as a reporter and editor in the Washington bureau of Knight-Ridder Newspapers. Charlie was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1992 for a series he wrote on Medicaid and was part of reporting teams that received a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting and a George Polk Award for political reporting.
Charlie is a graduate of the University of Maryland.
Lou Peck
Lou Peck is Editor-in-Chief of CongressDaily. Lou joined CongressDaily in 1991 as Editor. From 2000-2008, he was also Editor-in-Chief of Technology Daily.
Prior to joining CongressDaily, Lou was Editor of Campaigns & Elections magazine and also a freelance writer and editor. He began his career in journalism as a reporter for the Frankfort Times and Poughkeepsie Journal. He then worked for the Gannett News Service in its Washington, DC bureau.
Lou graduated from Brown University where he was the Editor of the Brown Daily Herald.
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.
Amy Walter
Amy Walter is Editor-in-Chief of The Hotline, Washington's premier daily briefing on American politics. Her analysis of the national political environment is featured in The Hotline's daily Spotlight and her National Journal column, On The Trail as well as on HotlineTV and weekly CSPAN appearances.
Amy is also a political analyst for CNN and a frequent contributor to The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She has served as a panelist and commentator on Face the Nation, Meet the Press, Washington Journal, Real Time with Bill Maher, and The Early Show. Amy provided election night commentary for CNN in 2002 and 2004, and was a member of CNN's Emmy-award winning election night team in 2006.
Amy is a graduate of Colby College.
