Columbia University's Fathom Seeks Users Among 'New Yorker' Readers

By SCOTT CARLSON

It takes an ambitious kind of company to advertise inside the back cover of The New Yorker. There you'll find the likes of Rolex and Acura, the pop icons featured in Absolut vodka spots, and ... Fathom?

An ad for the for-profit -- but not yet profitable -- online-learning venture appeared inside the back cover of...

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