One on One: Editor Andrew Cohen Reflects on 20 Years with Athletic Business

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He's not sure what's more personally significant, reaching 50 years of age or 20 years of employment at Athletic Business, but Andrew Cohen passes both anniversaries in 2011.

He's not sure what's more personally significant, reaching 50 years of age or 20 years of employment at Athletic Business, but Andrew Cohen passes both anniversaries in 2011. His first day with the magazine, as associate editor, was Jan. 2, 1991, and before he could begin writing anything, he needed involved instructions on how to use his newfangled desktop computer, which required the insertion of seven different floppy disks, in the proper order, to work on AB, and a different set of seven numbered floppies to work on sister magazine Hardwood Floors. He survived such austere beginnings to become senior editor of AB in 1995, and took over as editor in early 1998. Paul Steinbach, himself an 11-year veteran of the magazine, asked Cohen about a time for which there are no written records.

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