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''The Atlantic'' is an American magazine, founded (as ''The Atlantic Monthly'') in 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts, now based in Washington, D.C. It was created as a literary and cultural commentary magazine, growing to achieve a national reputation as a high-quality review with a moderate worldview.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Atlantic Monthly )〕 The magazine has notably recognized and published new writers and poets, as well as encouraged major careers. It has also published leading writers' commentary on abolition, education, and other major issues in contemporary political affairs. The magazine has won more National Magazine Awards than any other monthly magazine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AgentQuery :: Find the Agent Who Will Find You a Publisher )〕 After experiencing financial hardship and a series of ownership changes, the magazine was reformatted as a general editorial magazine. Focusing on "foreign affairs, politics, and the economy (well as ) cultural trends", it is now primarily aimed at a target audience of serious national readers and "thought leaders".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Atlantic )〕 The first issue of the magazine was published on November 1, 1857. The magazine's initiator and founder was Francis H. Underwood, an assistant to the publisher,〔''Encyclopaedia of the Essay'' Tracy Chevalier - 2012 "The Atlantic Monthly American magazine, 1857 The Atlantic Monthly was founded in Boston in 1857 by Francis Underwood (an assistant to the publisher..."〕〔''A History of the Atlantic Monthly, 1857-1909'' Ellery Sedgwick - 2009 p.3 "The Atlantic was founded in 1857 by Francis Underwood, an assistant to the publisher Moses Phillips, and a group of New ..."〕〔''The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier'' Volume 2 1975 p.318 "..however, was the founding of the Atlantic Monthly in 1857. Initiated by Francis Underwood and with Lowell as its first editor, the magazine had been sponsored and organized by Lowell, Emerson, Holmes, and Longfellow. "〕 who received less recognition than his partners because he was "neither a 'humbug' nor a Harvard man".〔Susan Goodman ''Republic of Words: The Atlantic Monthly and Its Writers'' 2011 p. 90 "Francis Parkman thought that the Atlantic's founder, Francis Underwood, never received adequate recognition because he was neither a 'humbug' nor a Harvard man"〕 The other founding sponsors were prominent writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Harriet Beecher Stowe; John Greenleaf Whittier; and James Russell Lowell, who served as its first editor. In 2010, ''The Atlantic'' posted its first profit in the previous decade. In profiling the publication at the time, ''The New York Times'' noted the accomplishment was the result of "a cultural transfusion, a dose of counterintuition and a lot of digital advertising revenue." ==Format, publication frequency, and name== The magazine, subscribed to by over 400,000 readers, now publishes ten times a year.〔 A change of name was not officially announced when the format first changed from a strict monthly (appearing 12 times a year) to a slightly lower frequency.〕 As the former name suggests, it was a monthly magazine for 144 years until 2001, when it published eleven issues; it published ten issues yearly from 2003 on, dropped "Monthly" from the cover starting with the January/February 2004 issue, and officially changed the name in 2007. ''The Atlantic'' features articles in the fields of the arts, the economy, foreign affairs, political science, and technology. Regular contributors include James Fallows and Jeffrey Goldberg.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Atlantic's Masthead )〕 In April 2005, ''The Atlantic'' editors decided to cease publishing fiction in regular issues in favor of a newsstand-only annual fiction issue edited by longtime staffer C. Michael Curtis. They have since re-instituted the practice. On January 22, 2008, TheAtlantic.com dropped its subscriber wall and allowed users to freely browse its site, including all past archives. In addition to TheAtlantic.com, The Atlantic's web properties have expanded to include TheAtlanticWire.com, a news- and opinion-tracking site launched in 2009, and in 2011, TheAtlanticCities.com, a stand-alone website devoted to global cities and trends. According to a ''Mashable'' profile in December 2011, "traffic to the three web properties recently surpassed 11 million uniques per month, up a staggering 2500% since ''The Atlantic'' brought down its paywall in early 2008." TheAtlantic.com covers politics, business, entertainment, technology, health, international affairs, and more. In December 2011, a new Health Channel launched on TheAtlantic.com, incorporating coverage of food, as well as topics related to the mind, body, sex, family, and public health. TheAtlantic.com has also expanded to visual storytelling with the addition of the In Focus photo blog, curated by Alan Taylor, and the Video Channel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Atlantic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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