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"The Atlantic Media Company has hired an editor to run Defense One, a digital-only publication concentrating on defense and national security launching this summer.\nKevin Baron, a national security reporter for Foreign Policy magazine, has been brought on as editor-in-chief executive editor, effective June 3. The position is a homecoming of sorts for Baron, who prior to Foreign Policy covered the \"business of war\" for another Atlantic Media publication, National Journal.\nBaron has just a few weeks to contract staff writers and contributors and to launch the title. It will start with just a handful of writers and editors, borrowing stories from other Atlantic Media publications and drawing on the company's existing technical and production resources, Baron said in a phone interview with Mashable on Friday. A spokesperson for Atlantic Media said the size of the Defense One team will eventually match or surpass those of other core Atlantic brands such as Quartz or Government Executive, which each have between 15 and 20 employees working on content and production.\nBaron has never before worked as an editor, much less edited an entire publication \u2014 and a digital-only one at that. What he does have is a long history of covering national security and an editorial vision that aligns with Atlantic Media's. Baron says the company has identified a new space for covering defense, similar to the kind of coverage Baron says he himself saw was lacking, especially in Washington.\n\"What they want to do, and what I want to do with them, is start a publication that is focused on truly the future and ideas of national security ... that's real-time, mobile, hard and hard-hitting,\" Baron says. \"Right now there are a lot of publications that [serve] certain specific stakeholder groups, that do a good job of serving the business side of the industry, or the day-to-day [politics]. We're hoping to have a higher level of commentary and discourse, a place where everyone \u2014 whether interested in policy, industry or politics \u2014 can come and be satisfied.\"\nThere is also the appeal, Baron added, of being able to publish those kinds of stories where anyone can read and get involved with them. Defense One will be free to access, supported by advertisers targeting audiences interested in national security issues. \n\"Because it\u2019s [an audience] niche that\u2019s very valuable, the advertising pricing is generous and has not depreciated along with mass general advertising,\" Atlantic Media President Justin Smith said of Defense One's revenue model in an interview with Adweek earlier this month. Northrop Grumman has signed on as a launch sponsor.\nDefense One is Atlantic Media's sixth brand and second digital-first publication. following the launch of business title Quartz last September.\nNote: This story was updated to reflect Baron's actual title \u2014 executive editor, not editor-in-chief \u2014 and to include the publication's launch sponsor.\nBehrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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