Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC (The Atlantic) was founded as an abolitionist journal in 1857 and has built a reputation for reporting and disseminating transformative ideas, including a long record of covering criminal justice issues, as part of its missional focus on issues of equity and justice. The renewal award supports the continuation of a series of live events under the AtlanticLIVE’s platform to convene diverse constituent groups in conversation on criminal justice topics. The events include organizing a session on race and justice at the annual AtlanticLIVE Festival; curating a panel for the annual Safety and Justice Challenge meetings; and supporting the Progress Report series, which explores race relations in the United States. Through the events platform, The Atlantic seeks to continue its experimentation and innovation in its approaches to covering criminal justice reform and building on the dedicated audience for these issues that were cultivated under past awards.

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC (The Atlantic) was founded as an abolitionist journal in 1857, and has built a reputation for reporting and disseminating transformative ideas, including a long record of covering criminal justice issues, as part of its missional focus on issues of equity and justice. The award supports the continuation of The Presence of Justice, an online project dedicated to covering the evolution of criminal justice in America with a focus on identifying reform measures that address the system’s ineffectiveness and inequities. In addition to the digital and print reporting projects, the award also supports The AtlanticLIVE’s Race + Justice events to produce a series of convenings in Safety and Justice Challenge jurisdictions that bring together state, local, and community stakeholders to discuss local criminal justice reform.

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC publication, The Atlantic, hosts The Presence of Justice, a dedicated reporting beat and multimedia platform to explore and critically examine the reasons for the vast growth in the criminal justice system in the United States and what reform measures can address the system’s ineffectiveness and inequities. The Presence of Justice focuses its coverage on different systems and approaches across the country, highlighting where and how lessons from state and local initiatives can be applied more broadly. The award supports digital reporting, The Atlantic Race+Justice Summit, and a series of roundtable dinners with state and local stakeholders from the public and private sector on racial and ethnic disparities in the administration of justice and what policies are needed to promote systems reform.

The Atlantic Group, Inc. publication, The Atlantic, hosts Next America, a multi-media digital platform to explore and critically examine how the current wave of demographic change and shifting cultural norms are redefining America and what it means to be an American. Next America organizes its coverage and reports on the issues around thematic editorial tracks on what it will take to bring more young people of color from low-income communities into the middle-class. The award enables the creation of a criminal justice track that addresses racial and ethnic disparities in the administration of justice and what policies are needed to promote systems reform.