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Steve Fennessy

On April 1, 2009 Steve Fennessy, deputy editor, assumed the position of editor of Atlanta magazine. In this role, he will have overall responsibility for the content and direction of the monthly magazine, as well as budgets, circulations goals, and editorial staffing.

Fennessy came to Fennessy came to Atlanta magazine in November 2005 and has excelled as a writer and editor throughout his tenure. His work was featured in the 2007 edition of Best American Crime Writing and earned him a prestigious Knight-Wallace fellowship at the University of Michigan. He is also a finalist for CRMA (City and Regional Magazine Association) writer of the year. With close to a decade of experience in the Atlanta market (he was an award-winning senior editor at Creative Loafing prior to joining Atlanta magazine), Fennessy brings a deep knowledge of the city to his new role, vital for any city magazine editor. Before moving to Atlanta in 2000, Fennessy worked as a reporter and editor at newspapers in upstate New York, and also as a journalist in Cairo, Egypt, from 1996 to 1998.