Brodner’s Cartoon du Jour: The Beautiful Atlantic

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James Bennet and the brilliant gang at The Atlantic are at last giving us a way forward in media. It’s not about killing print, but understanding the print/online mix and how to turn a profit using both. In this Times piece from Tuesday, we see how the magazine found a new direction: by simply changing its way of thinking.