Atlantic Media

Founded in 1997 when Bradley purchased the National Journal Group, the company expanded for three decades by launching several new publications and acquiring others.It began to slim down in 2017 when Bradley sold a majority stake in The Atlantic to Emerson Collective, and continued by selling Quartz in 2018, CityLab in 2019, and the Government Executive Media Group subsidiary – with its four publications / websites – in 2020.[5] The Washington Post reported that Emerson Collective planned to move to full ownership in "three to five years".[6] In 2018, Bradley sold Quartz to Uzabase, a Japanese financial publisher, in a deal that valued the publication up to $110M.[7] In December 2019, Bradley sold Citylab for an undisclosed sum to Bloomberg L.P.[8] In March 2020, Bradley sold Government Executive Media Group, including its publications Government Executive, Nextgov, Defense One, and Route Fifty, for an undisclosed sum to Growth Catalyst Partners, a private equity firm based in Chicago.
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