9. The Atlantic
Founded in Boston in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly by writer and editor Francis H. Underwood as well as a whole host of prominent writers of the day. It started life as a commentary on education, the abolition of slavery, and other major political issues of that time. Much like The Washington Post, it would have some financially turbulent early years, undergoing several ownership changes.
The form we see it in today only happened in 1999 when businessman David G. Bradley purchased the magazine and changed its format to a more general editorial magazine aimed at publishing well researched, lengthy articles that presents a view of the nation and world from Washington D.C. Since then it has attracted some of the leading journalists in the world to its pages and subscribed to American journalism principles of fact-based reporting.
