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FILE - Anne Applebaum poses for a photograph at her office at the Washington Post after being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for her book "Gulag: A History," on April 5, 2004. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
NEW YORK – Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, isn't modest in his goals. “We want The Atlantic to be the greatest writer's collective on the planet,” he said in a recent interview.
To that end, he's added 50 new journalists to his staff this year, financed in part by circulation growth that accelerated after a scoop that fell in his lap in March, when Goldberg was accidentally added to a text chain of Trump administration officials talking about an impending military attack.
A publication that began in 1857 is defying t