The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Type Daily newspaper Format Owner(s) Editor Kevin Riley Founded Constitution: 1868 Journal: 1883 Journal-Constitution: 2001 Headquarters, Georgia USA 231,094 (as of March 13, 2012) Website The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ( AJC) is the only major daily newspaper in the,, United States. It is the flagship publication of. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the result of the merger between The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution. The two staffs were combined in 1982. Separate publication of the morning Constitution and afternoon Journal ended in 2001 in favor of a single morning paper under the Journal-Constitution name. The AJC has its headquarters in the Atlanta suburb of. It is also co-owned with television flagship and six radio stations, which are located separately in. Debt Payment Programs.

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Contents • • • • • • • • • • The Atlanta Journal [ ] The Atlanta Journal was established in 1883. Hoge sold the paper to Atlanta lawyer in 1887.

After the Journal supported Presidential candidate in the 1892 election, Smith was named as by the victorious Cleveland. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist worked for the Journal from 1922 to 1926. Important for the development of her 1936 were the series of profiles of prominent Georgia Civil War generals she wrote for The Atlanta Journal's Sunday magazine, the research for which, scholars believe, led her to her work on the novel. In 1922, the Journal founded the South's first radio station, AM 740 (now 750). The radio station and the newspaper were sold in 1939 to, founder of what would become Cox Enterprises.

The Journal carried the motto 'Covers like the Dew'. The Atlanta Constitution [ ].

Atlanta Constitution Building, in abandoned state (1995, image.) The Constitution, as it was originally known, was first published on June 16, 1868. Its name changed to The Atlanta Constitution in October 1869.

It was such a force that by 1871 it had killed off the, the only Atlanta paper to survive the. In August 1875 its name changed to The Atlanta Daily Constitution for two weeks, then to The Constitution again for about a year. In 1876 Captain (a former Intelligencer city editor) purchased a controlling interest from E.Y. And became its editor-in-chief. That same year, began writing for the paper. He soon invented the character of, a black storyteller, as a way of recounting stories from African-American culture. In October 1876 the newspaper became The Daily Constitution, before settling on the name The Atlanta Constitution in September 1881.

During the 1880s, editor was a spokesman for the ', and encouraged industrial development. The Constitution started a radio station, WGM AM 710, having received its in March 1922, just two or four days after WSB. It is now succeeded by AM 640, though its original facility (after frequency changes to 1110 and 890) is now AM 920. The station folded after just over a year, and was donated to the (now Georgia Tech)., editor for the Constitution in the 1940s, was one of the few southern newspaper editors to support the. In 1946, reporter wrote that Japan had developed its own prior to and. From the 1970s until his death in 1994, was a popular humor columnist for the Constitution. He portrayed Southern ' culture with a mixture of ridicule and respect.

Other noteworthy editors of The Atlanta Constitution include. Raj Comics Nagraj. 'Reg' Murphy gained notoriety with his 1974 kidnapping. Murphy later served as editor of the. The Constitution won numerous. In 1931 it won a for exposing corruption at the local level. In 1959, The Constitution won a for Ralph McGill's editorial 'A Church, A School.'

In 1967 it was awarded another for Eugene Patterson's editorials. In 1960, Jack Nelson won the for local reporting, by exposing abuses at Milledgeville State Hospital for the mentally ill. In 1988 the went to the Constitution's. Received Pulitzer Prizes in 1995 and 2006. Received a 2007. 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.