The SaportaReport Team:
Maria Saporta is a longtime Atlanta business, civic and urban affairs journalist with a deep knowledge of our city, our region and state. Currently, she is a freelance journalist who writes a weekly column and news stories for the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Until the end of August, 2008, Maria spent 27 years with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and became its business columnist in January, 1991. Maria received her Master’s degree in urban studies from Georgia State University in 1980 and her Bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. In addition to the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Maria is writing a monthly column for the Association for Corporate Growth newsletter and is working with InsiderAdvantage/PollPosition. Maria was born in Atlanta to European parents and has two young adult children.
Lyle Harris is passionately commited to fostering an open and lively exchange of ideas and forging sustainable policy solutions critical to addressing metro Atlanta’s myriad challenges. In his 25-year journalism career, Lyle has worked for the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, and most recently, spent 17 years as a reporter, TV critic and editorial board writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. After resigning from the AJC in 2007, Lyle was a media and public policy consultant as well as co-founder of an online news service that provided content to newspapers in Georgia. Lyle currently is an independent policy consultant focusing primarily on transportation and environmental issues. Still a journalist by trade and temperament, he’s also helping establish a network of writers, reporters, editors, photographers, bloggers and assorted wonks dedicated to improving the health and vitality of local media. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Lyle graduated from Howard University in Washington, D.C. He is the father of adult twins and lives in south DeKalb County.
Jeff Cochran is an Atlanta native who has spent more than 30 years in advertising, first with Peaches Records and Tapes and then for 27 years with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Jeff accepted a buy-out from the AJC in August, 2008 and has since been working with longtime friends with the AJC, including Maria, who are establishing their own websites. Jeff also contributes articles to Likethedew.com, another site that features former AJC colleagues and other local writers.
Our Pledge to Readers:
Because the world of journalism and communications is ever changing with new channels and ways to deliver information, we want to maintain as much transparency as possible. We will strive to maintain high journalistic standards and will disclose any vested interests or relationships in stories and columns on SaportaReport.com. Advertising is being sold on the site, but there will be no quid-pro-quo that advertisers will receive special treatment on the site. But it is highly likely that some of our advertisers on the site would have views parallel views to ours. To keep the line between advertising and editorial content separate, Jeff will handle the selling of all ads on the site.
Editorial Content:
Maria Saporta
maria@saportareport.com
404-736-3612
Lyle Harris
lyle@saportareport.com
404-441-7554
Advertising:
Jeff Cochran
jeff@saportareport.com
404-441-7389
www.SaportaReport.com
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