After 45 years with AT&T, Venessa Harrison announced plans to retire at the end of January. Harrison moved to Atlanta in 2018 to serve as president of AT&T Georgia. Then, in 2022, she was given greater responsibility when she was named as president of AT&T Southeast Coastal States — a territory that includes Georgia, North […]
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AT&T to donate $500,000 for economic empowerment in Atlanta
AT&T will invest $500,000 in four Atlanta nonprofits in an effort to empower the traditionally underserved and drive economic mobility in Atlanta.
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WarnerMedia, AT&T create $250,000 COVID-19 fund for Atlanta arts groups
Responding to a critical need of Atlanta-based arts and cultural institutions, WarnerMedia and AT&T are establishing a COVID-19 relief fund of $250,000.
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WarnerMedia’s honor of Ted Turner: ‘It’s not enough’
Plain and simple. Ted Turner deserves more.
On Dec. 6, WarnerMedia brought its top brass to Atlanta to dedicate the media company’s Techwood campus to Ted Turner. They also unveiled a mural and a plaque describing Turner as “the original maverick pioneer in the media industry” and as a “champion of the environment.”
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WarnerMedia renames Techwood in Ted Turner’s honor: ‘Never have I lived through something like this’
WarnerMedia on Friday honored media pioneer Ted Turner by renaming the company’s Techwood campus in his honor.
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Column: AT&T enlisting entire Atlanta workforce to help Westside
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Jan. 18, 2019
The entire Atlanta workforce of AT&T – 15,000 people – will be part of an innovative “Believe Atlanta” campaign to help revitalize the Westside of the city.
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Column: Civic Atlanta: Woodruff Arts Center gets $5.1 million grant to extend free arts programs
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Dec. 15, 2017
The Woodruff Arts Center will be able to continue its Family Fun programming over the next three years thanks to a new philanthropic grant.
The Lettie Pate Evans Foundation, which is part of the Robert W. Woodruff family of foundations, has awarded the Woodruff Arts Center an extension grant of $5.1 million to allow Family Fun to continue – offering free access to music, visual arts and theater for another three years.
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AT&T, now seeking merger with Time Warner, could have been based in Atlanta
News of AT&T acquiring Time Warner brought up all these feelings of “cudda, wudda, shudda” for Atlanta.
Not only does Time Warner own the formerly-independent Turner Broadcasting System – including CNN, which is based in Atlanta but controlled from New York.
But Texas-based AT&T acquired the former Atlanta-based BellSouth Corp., a move that changed the city’s telecommunications profile forever.
