In 2018, Cohn was named Publishing Executive of the Year by Adweek. He helped lead The Atlantic to National Magazine Awards for Magazine of the Year (2016) and Best Website (2013). The Atlantic was named Publisher of the Year by Digiday in 2016, and to Advertising Age's Magazine A-List in that same year. TheAtlantic.com was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 2010, 2011, and 2012. During his tenure at Wired, the magazine won three National Magazine Awards for General Excellence. In 1992 he won, with his colleague David Kaplan, the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award for coverage of the Supreme Court nomination process.
