Political and spiritual activist Marianne Williamson remains unwavering despite not reaching her goal in two separate runs for U.S. President (2020 and 2024) and an unsuccessful race to become chair of the Democratic National Committee. During those campaigns, and now, she is calling upon people — from politicians to everyday working men and women — […]
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AJC fires top investigative reporter after finding errors in Bulldogs misconduct story
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution this week fired a top investigative journalist after finding errors in a story that alleged the University of Georgia (UGA) Bulldogs football program protected players accused of sexual misconduct or assault. The firing of Alan Judd was announced deep inside a July 19 AJC story that left some big questions unanswered, including […]
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Cox scion’s defection over ‘Cop City’ shines a light on media conflicts, old-money power
The Cox family’s Marxist black sheep very publicly separating from the flock this month over their support of Atlanta’s public safety training center made for a cartoonish passing amusement in the right-wing press. Here in Atlanta, the defection of Jim “Fergie” Chambers Jr. is a bigger story than that. It’s a rare insider’s view of […]
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An LGBTQ news site disappears in a warning to all media in the digital age
Project Q Atlanta silently disappeared from the web one day in April, sending 14 years of crucial LGBTQ community journalism into a digital netherworld from which it may or may not return. It joins a long list of digital media – famously including Creative Loafing Atlanta – whose archives have been totally or partially lost […]
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CNN and Fox, rival siblings caught in a 24/7 loop, face problems of their own making
By Tom Baxter Last Thursday, hundreds of current and former employees of Cable News Network gathered around the big red sign outside CNN Center for a farewell photograph before the network moved its Atlanta operations back to its original Midtown location. It was a tender moment, both for the network and the city from which […]
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Cox agrees to buy news site Axios; AJC and Atlanta newsletter to remain independent
The booming national news website Axios has agreed to be bought for $525 million by Cox Enterprises, owner of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the companies announced Aug. 8.
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Atlanta Children’s Film Festival: Stories for kids, by kids
By Hannah E. Jones Between streaming services, the 24-hour news cycle and never-ending social media feeds, we’re constantly bombarded by content — and not all of it’s uplifting. The younger generation is no exception. The average U.S. child will witness 200,000 violent acts through media by their 18th birthday, according to the American Psychiatric Association, […]
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What, me worry? New losses in the long decline of the Empire of Paper
What with the departure of Mad Magazine and the Chicago Defender, this has been a depressing passage in the long decline and fall of the Empire of Paper. The loss of any publication represents the loss of a voice, and in their separate ways, Mad and the Defender were unique and distinctive American voices.
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Shorthanded city trust task force meets; mayor says it’s a challenge to enlist folks generally
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said people are second-guessing their decisions to work with Atlanta, and called on the media to do more good news.
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Sale of WSB-TV heralds big changes in Atlanta media scene
The media is seldom so circumspect as when it covers itself. Thus it was that the biggest Atlanta media story in many a year landed Saturday morning in a modest one-column hole on Page A10 of the Journal-Constitution.
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Fearing journalism’s nuclear meltdown
You probably wouldn’t know it from checking our local media outlets, but Georgia Power, the state’s largest electric utility, is at the center of one of the biggest consumer shakedowns in state history – and there could be more bad news on the way.
