Atlanta Journal-Constitution to stop printing as it transitions to all-digital news

At the end of the year, the Atlanta (AP)-Atlanta Journal-Constitution will stop providing a printed pressure at the end of the year and will completely digitize and indicate a dramatic change for a storey newspaper established just a few years after the end of the Civil War.

Although the decision continues to print some small metro Atlanta newspapers, it will make the largest US subway area without printed daily newspaper.

The publisher Andrew Morse made the announcement on Thursday and said that the news organization will continue to report the news using online, audio and video products.

“The truth is that many people interact more than our printed print with our digital platforms and products, and this change is only accelerating.” Letter to subscribers It was released on Journal-Constitution’s website. AJC has about 115,000 subscribers with a total of 75,000 only online; Morse set a target to win 500,000 online subscribers.

The newspaper specifically belongs to the grandchildren of the Cox family. Old Ohio Gov. James Cox acquired the Atlanta Journal in 1939 and the Atlanta Constitution in 1950. The Atlanta Constitution was founded just a few years after the Civil War to ruin Atlanta, and the platform of famous editors, including New South Booster Henry Grady and anti -episode Ralph McGill.

Morse said that Journal-Constitution will offer a new mobile application by the end of the year and will provide electronic reproduction version for subscribers who prefer Paper Edition’s experience.

Many smaller newspapers stopped printing, while others cut their broadcast days. For example, Tampa and St. Tampa Bay Times, which serves Florida, St. Petersburg, prints only two days a week. However, it is unusual that large metropolitan newspapers have completely abandoned the pressure. The highest profile sample is Newark, New Jersey’s Star Ledger. The best -selling newspaper in New Jersey once He stopped pressure in February. The Newhouse family, the owner of Yıldız-Ledger, also stopped suppressing the new newspapers in New Jersey and other major newspapers in Alabama.

The Cox family, a former CNN ruler, has invested in the news organization since he became a publisher in 2023. Journal-Constitution hired journalists in the cities of Athens, Macon and Savannah Georgia, expanded an offer that focuses on black culture and pushed new audio and video offers. The business also moved to a new office in Midtown neighborhood of Atlanta and returned to the city borders from an office in the northern suburbs.

Company executives said printed pressure is still profitable. Journal-Constitution closed its own printing facilities and pressure on another newspaper in Gainesville, Gainesville in 2021. When Morse came to the ship, a plan paused to reduce pressure pressure, but now he said that time was right.

“We will begin as a completely digital organization that committed to being the most important and interesting news source for the Atlanta, Georgia and the Southern people, as always, Mers Morse said Morse.