Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Cox Enterprises
Founded	Constitution: 1868 Journal: 1883 Journal-Constitution: 2001
Headquarters	72 Marietta St. N.w. Atlanta, Georgia 30302
Website: ajc.com

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the only major daily newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia, USA and its suburbs. The AJC, as it is called, is the flagship publication of Cox Enterprises. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the result of the merger between the Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Constitution . The staff was combined in 1982, and all separate delivery of the morning Constitution and afternoon Journal ended in 2001 [1]. Circulation is now 460,672 for weekdays and 620,782 on Sundays [2]. Since 2003, the paper has also published Access Atlanta , a free tabloid-sized entertainment paper. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the only major daily newspaper of Atlanta and metro Atlanta. ... Atlanta Journal-Constitution logo. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded at Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. ... 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Hotlanta, The Big Peach Location Location in Fulton and DeKalb counties in the state of Georgia Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Georgia Fulton County, Georgia DeKalb County, Georgia Mayor Shirley Franklin (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 132. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Hotlanta, The Big Peach Location Location in Fulton and DeKalb counties in the state of Georgia Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Georgia Fulton County, Georgia DeKalb County, Georgia Mayor Shirley Franklin (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 132. ... According to the 2000 census, the 28-county Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan area has a population of 4,247,981 making it the eleventh largest metropolitan area in the United States. ... Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded at Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. ... The phrase mergers and acquisitions or M&A refers to the aspect of corporate finance strategy and management dealing with the merging and acquiring of different companies as well as assets. ... You may be looking for information on: Look up staff on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

Subsequent to the staff consolidation of 1982, the afternoon Journal maintained a center-right editorial stance while the editorials and op-eds in the morning Constitution was reliably liberal. When the editions combined in 2001 the editorial page staffs also merged, and the editorials and op-eds have attempted to strike a more "balanced" tone. However, most of the paper's editorial stances have been closer to those of the old Constitution. The combined paper endorsed John Kerry for president in 2004; in 2000 the Constitution endorsed Al Gore while the Journal endorsed George W. Bush. It also harshly condemned Bush's decision to allow the National Security Agency to spy on phone conversations in the United States without a warrant by calling his actions a "clear, present danger." John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. ... The presidential seal was used by President Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States and a former governor of Texas. ... Image:Security Agency seal. ... On December 16, 2005, the New York Times printed a story claiming that, under White House pressure and with an executive order from President George W. Bush, the National Security Agency had been conducting warrantless phone-taps on people in the U.S. calling people outside of the country in...

Atlanta Constitution

Constitution building 1890

The Atlanta Constitution was first published on June 16, 1868 and was such a force that by 1871 it had killed off the only Atlanta paper to survive the American Civil War, the Daily Intelligencer. In 1876 Captain Evan Howell (a former Intelligencer city editor) purchased a controlling interest and became its editor-in-chief. That same year, Joel Chandler Harris began writing the paper and soon invented the character of Uncle Remus, a black storyteller. During the 1880s, Constitution editor Henry W. Grady was a spokesman for the "New South," encouraging industrial development in the South. Ralph McGill, editor for the Constitution in the 1940s was one of the few southern newspaper editors to support the American Civil Rights Movement. From the 1970s until his death in 1994, Lewis Grizzard was a popular humor columnist for the Constitution, portraying Southern "redneck" culture with a mixture of ridicule and respect. Other editors of the Atlanta Constitution include J. Reginald Murphy. June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ... 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederate) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties Killed in action: 110,000 Total dead: 360,000 Wounded: 275,200 Killed in action: 93,000 Total dead: 258... Office of the Intelligencer shortly after the surrender of Atlanta The Daily Intelligencer was first published in 1849 as the young city of Atlantas first successful daily newspaper. ... 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Evan P. Howell Categories: American politician stubs | Mayors of Atlanta ... The Editor in chief is a publications primary editor. ... Joel Chandler Harris Joel Chandler Harris Joel Chandler Harris (December 8, 1848 - July 3, 1908) was an American journalist from Georgia, best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories: Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings (1881), Nights with Uncle Remus (1883), Uncle Remus and His Friends (1892), and Uncle... Uncle Remus was the title and fictional narrator of a collection of stories by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form from 1881; seven Uncle Remus books were published. ... Henry Woodfin Grady (May 17, 1851 – December 23, 1889) was a journalist and orator who did much to help reintegrate the states of the former Confederacy into the union after the American Civil War. ... New South is a term that has been used intermittently since the American Civil War to describe the American South, in whole or in part. ... Ralph Emerson McGill (February 5, 1898- February 3, 1969), American journalist, was best known as the anti-segregationist editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper. ... The civil rights movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all citizens of United States. ... Lewis Grizzard (October 20, 1946 - March 20, 1994) was an American writer and humorist, famous for his Southern demeanor and commentary on the U.S. Southern states. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... J. Reginald Murphy was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution. ...

The Constitution won a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1959 for Ralph McGill's editoral "A Church, A School....", and in 1967 for Eugene Patterson's editorials. The paper won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1931 for exposing corruption at the local level. Jack Nelson won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for local reporting, exposing abuses at Milledgeville State Hospital for the mentally ill. The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning went to the Constitiution's Doug Marlette in the 1988 and Mike Luckovich in 1995 and 2006. The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing has been awarded since 1917 for distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service has been awarded since 1918 for a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper through the use of its journalistic resources which may include editorials, cartoons, and photographs, as well as reporting. ... The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning has been awarded since 1922 for a distinguished cartoon or portfolio of cartoons published during the year, characterized by originality, editorial effectiveness, quality of drawing, and pictorial effect. ... The Bridge (2001) Doug Marlette is an award-winning American editorial cartoonist and writer. ... Mike Luckovich (born 1960) is an editorial cartoonist who has worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1989. ...

Atlanta Journal

The Atlanta Journal was established in 1883. Founder E.F. Hoge sold the paper to Atlanta lawyer Hoke Smith in 1887. After the Journal supported Presidential candidate Grover Cleveland in the 1892 election, Smith was named as Secretary of the Interior by the victorious Cleveland. Margaret Mitchell worked for the Journal before she wrote her famous 1936 novel Gone with the Wind. In 1922, the Journal founded Atlanta's first radio station, WSB. The radio station and the newspaper were sold in 1939 to James Middleton Cox, founder of what would become Cox Enterprises. The Journal carried the motto "Covers Dixie like the Dew". Michael Hoke Smith (September 2, 1855 – November 27, 1931) was a newspaper owner, United States Secretary of the Interior (1893-1896), Democratic Governor of Georgia (1907-1909,1911), and a United States Senator (1911-1920) from Georgia. ... Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd (1885–1889) and 24th (1893–1897) President of the United States, and the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms. ... The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior, concerned with such matters as national parks and The Secretary is a member of the Presidents Cabinet. ... Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 - August 16, 1949) was the American author who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her immensely successful novel, Gone with the Wind, that was published in 1936. ... Gone with the Wind, an American novel by Margaret Mitchell, was published in 1936 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and appeal to a wider international audience, this article may require cleanup. ... WSB AM (NewsTalk 750) is an AM radio station in the city of Atlanta, Georgia with a frequency of 750kHz. ... James Middleton Cox (March 31, 1870 - July 15, 1957) was a Governor of Ohio, U.S. Representative from Ohio and a candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1920. ...

Merger

Cox Enterprises bought the Constitution in June 1950, bringing both newspapers under one ownership and combining sales and administrative offices. Separate newsrooms were kept until 1982, though both papers continued to be published. The Journal, an afternoon paper, led the morning Constitution until the 1970s, when afternoon papers began to fall out of favor with subscribers. In November 2001, the two papers, which were once fierce competitors, merged to produce one daily morning paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The two papers had published a combined edition on weekends and holidays for years.

In 1989, Bill Dedman received the Pulitzer Prize for "The Color of Money," his expose on racial discrimination in mortgage lending, or redlining, by Atlanta banks. [3]. The newspapers' editor, Bill Kovach, had resigned in November 1988 after the stories on banks and others had ruffled feathers in Atlanta. (see Anne Cox Chambers). The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ... Redlining is the practice of denying or increasing the cost of services, such as banking or insurance, to residents of certain areas. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Anne Cox Chambers Anne Cox Chambers (born December 1, 1919) is a billionaire media proprietor. ...

In 1993, Mike Toner received the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for "When Bugs Fight Back," his series about organisms and their resistance to antibiotics and pesticides. The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ... An antibiotic is a drug that kills or slows the growth of bacteria. ... the plane is spreading pesticide. ...

Julia Wallace was named the first female editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution in 2002.In 2005 she was named Editor of the Year in 2005 by Editor and Publisher Magazine ^[4].

In 2003, the AJC launched Access Atlanta to compete with alternative weeklies such as Atlanta's Creative Loafing. Access Atlanta is given away for free in sidewalk newsbins and also appears as an insert in Thursday editions of the AJC. Recent cover of Portland, Oregons Willamette Week An alternative weekly is a type of weekly newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of opinionated reviews and columns, investigations into edgy topics and magazine-style feature stories highlighting local people and culture. ... Creative Loafing is the name of two alternative weekly newspapers published by Tampa Bay, Florida-based Creative Loafing, Inc. ...

Mike Luckovich again won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 2006, an award he had previously received in 1995 under the Atlanta Constitution banner.

References

• Perry, Chuck. 2004. "Atlanta Journal-Constitution". New Georgia Encyclopedia Georgia Humanities Council. [5]
• ↑ American Society of Editors Mag. March 7,2003. Editor and Publisher Mag. Jan.24,2005

External links

• Official website