By Britton Edwards, COO, Atlanta Way 2.0 On Saturday, the energy inside Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) was palpable as aspiring journalists gathered for Press Pass to Success, an inspiring and informative event designed to support the next generation of storytellers. A partnership between Atlanta Way 2.0, VOX ATL, the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the […]
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Newly formed Georgia Trust for Local News sparks hope for journalism
As of Jan. 1, the Georgia Trust for Local News – a subsidiary of the National Trust for Local News (NTLN) – has acquired 18 newspapers in Middle and South Georgia. The model blends the best of nonprofit and for-profit practices to ensure the sustainability of local news.
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‘Cop City’ cases make Atlanta and Georgia buck national trend of declining arrests of journalists
Atlanta and Georgia bucked a national trend of declining arrests of journalists in 2022 with two “Cop City” protest coverage incidents, according to a recent analysis of U.S. Press Freedom Tracker data. The Tracker is a national database operated by the New York-based Freedom of the Press Foundation in partnership with other groups, including the […]
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Atlanta Press Club to honor winners of 2022 ‘Awards of Excellence’
The Atlanta Press Club has named the winners of its 2022 “Awards of Excellence” for journalism created last year.
Posted inColumns, John Ruch
Fulton DA’s call for journalists to testify in Trump investigation raises legal, ethical dilemmas
Grand jury testimony is a legal and ethical quagmire for journalists – the stuff of Supreme Court cases and a Georgia reporters’ shield law – and this case is worthy of far more public discussion.
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Black Women’s History Month: Errin Haines
The Atlanta native and editor-at-large for The 19th* wants you to be informed about the issues that affect your world. By Allison Joyner If you told her two years ago that she would be working at an independent, nonprofit newsroom, she would have said you were crazy. But now Errin Haines is reporting on gender, […]
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Reflections: Saying good-bye to ATL Biz Chronicle; hello to new journalism ventures
Last week marked the end of my tenure with the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
It’s a strange time to be in transition. The world as we know it has changed as we try to figure out how we can survive during the Coronavirus outbreak, and none of us know what will happen and how we will be impacted.
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Shaping the news in 2020: Predictions for journalism
Editor’s Note: This is the first of four stories this week that look at topics and trends likely to appear on devices and news platforms in metro Atlanta in 2020.
Journalism that appears this year in metro Atlanta on screens small and large, on radio and in print, will inform and engage with elements that will be like fresh air to some readers – including more diversity in voices in stories, more podcasts, more visual stories, and more stories that percolate up from neighborhoods, according to a collection of predictions gathered by an affiliate of Harvard College.
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Journalism matters? A reporter questions whether it does.
I admit, I may have sent the eyeroll emoji to a colleague on the other side of a borrowed meeting room in Ansley Park when the board of the Atlanta Press Club settled on a tagline: “journalism matters.”
Posted inWABE
Commentary: Atlanta Inquirer continues tenacious journalism
In the early 1960s, the Atlanta Student Movement bubbled up from the historically black colleges on the west side of downtown.
They wanted to be able to eat at restaurants, shop at department stores and not live as second-class citizens.
Posted inColumns, Michelle Hiskey, Michelle Hiskey & Ben Smith
To journalists on front line, Atlanta chaplain offers lifeline
The beheading of James Foley troubled Dorie Griggs of Roswell on a level that most of us cannot relate to. For the last 12 years she has followed an unpaid calling as a chaplain to journalists, especially those in combat zones.
It would be hard to find anyone in metro Atlanta who understands and supports the news gatherers who rush to danger without the benefit of trauma training. And sometimes don’t come back.
Posted inColumns, Michelle Hiskey & Ben Smith
Gutsy voices of teen writers help VOX survive
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that schools could censor student newspapers, teenagers responded by creating their own uncensored and independent newspapers. Atlanta became home to VOX—Latin for “voice.”
Many of these papers folded in an era of massive cutbacks in professional journalism. But against those odds, VOX Teen Communications celebrated its 20th anniversary Saturday. Through VOX, many students launched successful college and professional careers in fields beyond journalism, earning the Gates Millenium scholarship among other awards.
In those short hours and on the weekends, VOX attracted students from all over the metro Atlanta area, who were mentored by professional journalists and other advisers. They reported, edited, photographed and designed a newspaper that publishes five times a year and a website www.voxteencommunications.org, that updates continuously, filled with work not likely to be deemed suitable by most high school administrators. Some of it is truly groundbreaking.
Posted inPublic Relations, Thought Leader
Announcement by The Associated Press to include Samsung-sponsored Tweets is part of an evolving platform
The Associated Press announced it will begin having sponsored tweets on its Twitter feed and Samsung will be the first company to take part in it. Twitter has had advertising for some time in the form of Promoted Tweets – tweets purchased by advertisers that appear in targeted users’ Twitter feeds. The Promoted Tweets are […]
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For veteran journalist, neighborhood trail leads to a new beat
Note from Michelle: This week’s column is by guest writer Ben Smith, who happens to be my husband. Many of you know him from his days as an AJC political reporter.
By Ben Smith
In my old life, hitting the trail meant following the money, traveling with a campaign or tracking down a criminal.
Today it simply means taking my dog for walks in the woods and keeping my eyes open.
Yet in the three years since I left the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and sought to reinvent myself in the digital age, I have discovered that my skills as a reporter easily translate to a “beat” that is much smaller, more isolated and surprisingly weird.
Posted inMoments, Moments Season 2
Mike Luckovich learned lessons about the power of the cartoonist’s pen at an early age
By Chris Schroder
Ruffling feathers with a cartoon isn’t unfamiliar territory for Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist, Mike Luckovich, but his approach to his cartoons was permanently defined by a high school Moment. Luckovich was a sophomore in high school at Sheldon High School in Eugene, Oregon and had just begun drawing cartoons for the school newspaper.
He joked, “In high school, believe it or not, I was not a very big guy” and described how the rest of his peers towered over him – even the Sheldon High School cheerleaders. “So I did this cartoon – I don’t know what I was thinking,” he said.
The cartoon depicted a freak museum with a billboard marquis that read: “Freak Museum: featuring Snerdily the boy with three nostrils, Melvin the deformed hippo and main attraction: The Sheldon Cheerleaders.”
Posted inPublic Relations, Thought Leader
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My first journalism writing class was sophomore year of college. It was an intro level class and the first in which we were given writing assignments in my public relations curriculum. My eagerness to write was met with disappointment on the first day of class. The instructor walked us through the syllabus and explained that […]
