• by Sara Guaglione , October 11, 2016

After an extensive search for its next editor-in-chief, The Atlantic has appointed Jeffrey Goldberg, the magazine's national correspondent since 2007.

He replaces James Bennet, who left The Atlantic this May to become the editorial-page editor of The New York Times.

The appointment is effective immediately. He is The Atlantic’s 14th editor since it was founded in 1857.

Goldberg will oversee editorial in print, digital and video, as well as guide the editorial teams at CityLab and the company’s events division, Atlantic LIVE.

He will work closely with The Atlantic’s magazine editor Scott Stossel, editor of TheAtlantic.com J.J. Gould and Atlantic Studios general manager and executive producer Kasia Cieplak-mayr von Baldegg on video.

Goldberg told The New York Times he plans to focus on “growing quickly on all platforms while maintaining Atlantic-level standards and quality.” He has written 11 cover stories for The Atlantic. His in-depth article based on interviews with Barack Obama, “The Obama Doctrine,” spread across 21 pages in the magazine’s April issue and was widely acclaimed.

He was also one of the authors for the magazine's announcement endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, only the third presidential endorsement in the magazine’s history.

Goldberg was a former Mideast correspondent, and former Washington Correspondent of The New Yorker, as well as a writer for The New York Times Magazine and New York, where he covered organized crime.

Goldberg is taking on The Atlantic’s editorial operations as the publisher aggressively grows in the digital space. The Atlantic’s online audience rose to 19 million unique online visitors in the U.S., a roughly 50% increase from August 2015, according to comScore. Per the NYT, the company said it expected its total revenue to increase 20% this year.