May 13, 2014: NRCC: John Barrow’s politicking called out by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
John Barrow is known for being a self-serving politician whose only focus is to better position himself for re-elect. While the priorities of 12th District families are second to the priorities of John Barrow’s ambition, this latest bill, which would require Members of Congress to fly coach, is so transparent that the Atlanta Journal-Constitution called out Barrow for his shameless ways. May 9, 2014: Tucker Patch: Atlanta Journal Constitution Cup Winner Greater Atlanta Christian School senior, Sam Weyen, received this year's top honor - the Atlanta Journal Constitution Cup.May 8, 2014: Georgia Public Policy Foundation: Atlanta Journal-Constitution Publishes our Op-Ed on Trade Authority This op-ed appeared in May 7, 2014 edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.May 4, 2014: Decoded Science: Insufficient Mental Health Treatment for Veterans Contributes to High Suicide Rate This scandal mirrors a situation uncovered last year by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In August 2013, the newspaper revealed that 16 veterans had attempted suicide while waiting to receive mental health care at the overburdened Atlanta VA Medical Center, in Georgia. Apr 15, 2014: Columbia Journalism Review: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution does the Medicaid story we’ve been looking for - So it’s only fair that we acknowledge The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which on April 5 published the Medicaid story we’ve been looking for, and set an example for other news outlets on how to spotlight one of health reform’s biggest inequities. Apr 7, 2014: SB Nation: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Spoke With Ahmed Hill Back on Friday, (and why I had to find this out yesterday through Twitter instead of from the Google Alert I set up, I'll never know) the Atlanta Journal-Constitution posted a recruiting blog entryfocused on what's going on with Marquette signee and Augusta, GA, native Ahmed Hill.May 20, 2014: PRWeb: Contact At Once! Named Atlanta Journal-Constitution Top Workplace Contact At Once! announced today that it has been recognized for the third straight year as an Atlanta Journal-Constitution Top Workplace for 2014.Mar 19, 2014: PR Newser: Chick-Fil-A CEO Is So Over This Whole ‘Gay Marriage’ Thing In an extended interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week, Cathy said he “regrets” turning his company into a corporate spokesperson on social policy:Feb 14, 2014: Kyle Wingfield: Atlanta Constitutional Journal: What Democrats won't tell you about income inequality Jan 30, 2014: SND: How The Atlanta Journal-Constitution covered a winter storm Melissa Angle, projects editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, shared the story behind the paper’s special edition, which published Thursday.Jan 25, 2014: Autism Votes: Atlanta Journal Constitution: 'Health Plans Should Cover Autism' The Atlanta Journal-Constitution today published an opinion piece by Sen. John Albers, the Senate sponsor of Ava's Law, calling for enactment of autism insurance reform legislation this year in Georgia.Jan 7, 2014: AALAC: AALAC makes the front page of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution On January 2nd, 2014, AALAC made the front page of Atlanta Journal-Constitution in Craig Schneider’s article, “Asian Americans entering politics”. AALAC Executive Director Helen Kim Ho’s Op-Ed piece regarding the importance of immigrant voters was also published in the paper. Oct 27, 2013: Finding Zealots: GRM’s Social Media Campaign Featured in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Guest Relations created a program in September 2009 to honor the courageous fight of children with cancer.Oct 23, 2013: Poynter: Atlanta Journal-Constitution apologizes for weird tweet The Atlanta Journal-Constitution apologized Wednesday for a tweet about a lottery winner that said he could now “get 40 acres and a whole lotta mules.”Oct 10, 2013: NPAA: Staff Cuts At Cox Newspapers, Reuters Today at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Cox flagship paper, news spread that the 10 person photography staff will be cut to only five people by November 1st. Sept 19, 2013: Jim Romenesko: Atlanta Journal-Constitution hires two Star Tribune reporters, including a Pulitzer-winner On Wednesday, the Star Tribune lost editor Nancy Barnes to the Houston Chronicle. Today it was announced that the Minneapolis paper is losing two reporters — religion writer Rose French and her husband, Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter Brad Schrade — to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.Jan 24, 2013: Deadspin: Asante Samuel's Mother Died, And The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Used An Inappropriate Photo I get that the overworked and underpaid web editor only has a certain number of in-house photos to choose from (Gettyand the AP have much more appropriate ones, so perhaps the paper is trying to keep under its monthly limit), but they went with one that's not even particularly recent.Jan 13, 2013: Thrashing The Blues: AJC takes shot at Thrashers fans. Why? I have my own opinions about their news coverage (I read it because it's basically my only option for decent-ish metro Atlanta news), but aside from Mark Bradley and Jeff Schultz, I've found their sports coverage borderline useless. June 8, 2013: News Busters: Atlanta Journal/Constitution Political Cartoonist: Contraception Debate’s About Controlling You Syndicated editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich, working for the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, created a cartoon bashing the Catholic Church for controlling women. July 6, 2011: Huffington Post: Atlanta Cheating Scandal Unveiled By Reporters Three years ago, Heather Vogell, an investigative reporter at the Atlanta Journal Constitution, sat down with a data analyst to crunch some numbers.July 1, 2012: Inma: Reader-driven improvements bring circulation gains to Atlanta-Journal Constitution "Reader value strategy" — which centers on a focus of core readers and move toward the journalism readers want — leads to AJC's first circulation gains in seven years. May 23, 2011: Huffington Post: Roddy White Lashes Out At Atlanta Journal-Constitution Atlanta Falcons receiver Roddy White went on a profanity-laced rant on his Twitter account directed at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.May 4, 2011: Atlanta Business Chronicle: WSJ tops in circulation, AJC reports dip The AJC reports Monday through Friday circulation dipped to 183,415, down from 196,201 last year, according to the report from The Audit Bureau of Circulations which tracks numbers in the industry for advertising and other purposes Dec 2, 2010: Creative Loafing: Julia Wallace is no longer AJC editor Staffers were informed during a meeting earlier today that Julia Wallace, who oversaw the AJC's redesign and shifted its resources and focus on the northern 'burbs, has stepped down as the daily paper's executive editor.Nov 11, 2010: Creative Loafing: 'Burbs or bust The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has left Atlanta – literally and figuratively – in its quest for suburban readers As subscriptions and advertising revenue plummeted for most dailies, the AJC cut its newsroom by more than half,stopped distributing in most Georgia counties, closed its suburban news bureaus, disbanded its editorial board, discontinued its daily business section, launched complete redesigns of the weekday and Sunday papers, and reorganized its editorial staff at least four different times.Nov 10, 2010: Saporta Report: Gift of building does not absolve the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s downtown departure But that voice — the voice of reason, hope and progress — has been muted at today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Instead, the newspapers seem hell bent to portray the City of Atlanta and the core of the region in the worst possible light Aug 23, 2010: Eater: Critic John Kessler Returns to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution John Kessler, the once and future restaurant reviewer for the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has announced his return to the paper as principal restaurant critic this Friday after an absence of almost six years.Aug 17, 2009: Huffington Post: Atlanta Journal Constitution Moves To Suburbs The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is moving to the suburbs, abandoning its downtown space that the company described Monday as outdated and in need of substantial funds to maintain and operate.Aug 17, 2009: Atlanta Business Chronicle: Atlanta Journal-Constitution moving HQ to Dunwoody The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) confirmed Monday it will leave its downtown headquarters and make its new home in Dunwoody in the first quarter of 2010.July 23, 2009: Seattle Times: Atlanta Journal-Constitution gets new publisher Michael Joseph has been promoted to publisher of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Cox Media Group announced Thursday.Apr 27, 2009: SND Region 3: Atlanta Journal-Constitution redesign launches tomorrow Find a sneak peek of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's redesign that launches tomorrow (Tuesday, April 28) athttp://www.ajcsundaysneakpeek.com and also at http://www.youraudiencedelivered.com.Apr 19, 2009: New York Times: An Atlanta Editorial Voice May Move to the Right “I think they’re trying not to offend,” said Kenneth Edelstein, a blogger and former editor of Creative Loafing, an Atlanta alternative weekly. “It’s definitely a move to the right, and it’s a real change for a paper that was the most important progressive voice in the South for a long time.” April 15, 2009: Huffintgon Post: How Journalism Plays Twister...To the Right Exhibit B: Cynthia Tucker -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial page editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has long been the kind of contrarian voice that we journalists allegedly worship -- is being moved up and out of her slot in what local observers say is part of a seemingly futile bid to woo back conservative suburban readers: It's safe to say, however, that for the first time in generations, the state's leading editorial page finally will have abandoned its mission as a progressive voice in favor of a carefully constructed mirage of "balance" -- designed not to tell the truth, whether it's unpopular or not, as much as to mollify conservative readers.Apr 13, 2009: Reuters: Atlanta Journal-Constitution needs its D.C. bureau The AJC — the 22nd-largest U.S. daily by weekday circulation and 13th largest by Sunday circulation — said on Monday that it named Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and editorial page editor Cynthia Tucker as political columnist in Washington, D.C.Mar 25, 2009: Wall Street Journal: Atlanta Journal-Constitution cutting news staff by 30% The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said Wednesday it is slashing its news staff by about 30% and will stop distribution to certain counties around AtlantaMar 10. 2009: Libertarian Republican: As other Liberal papers die, Atlanta Journal-Constitution makes a desperate appeal to Conservatives and Libertarians It's planning to move the paper to the political center, scrutinizing their news reporting for liberal bias, and even inviting more participation from conservatives, and at least one libertarian on the editorial page.Apr 2, 2008: Huffington Post: Luckovich's Lament: Cartooning Obama Is Gonna Be Tough The more editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich sees of Barack Obama, the more he likes the President-elect. Oddly enough, this turn of events has the Pulitzer Prize winning artist very, very worried.Mar 8, 2008: Huffington Post: Key Newspapers Weigh In On Obama v. Clinton Obama was the recipient of the Atlanta Journal Constitution's support. The paper, whose reach extends into parts of South Carolina - where the Democrats will be voting a week from Saturday - and Florida - where they will cast ballots shortly thereafter - wrote of the Illinois Democrat: "[He] has demonstrated an appeal across many of the lines that have divided America. That is a critically important attribute, because the scale of changes that must be made to correct America's course cannot be accomplished with majorities of 50 percent plus one. "Different moments in history require different types of leaders, and part of the art of picking a president is matching the person to the challenge and to the time. So while both Clinton and Obama would make very good presidents, Obama is the person; this is his time." Feb 27, 2008: The Body: Atlanta Journal-Constitution Profiles Advocacy Group HealthSTAT, Including Work With HIV/AIDS The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Tuesday profiled the advocacy group HealthSTAT, which stands for Health Students Taking Action Together, including its work on HIV/AIDS policy in Georgia. Members of the group include students in nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, public health and related fields from nine colleges and medical schools in Georgia. Oct 29, 2007: University of Georgia: Atlanta Journal Constitution Editor Julia Wallace to present UGA’s 29th McGill Lecture A newspaper editor described as fearless and inventive will deliver the 29th McGill Lecture at the University of Georgia on Wednesday, Nov. 7. May 30, 2007: On The Record: Trouble in Atlanta: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Situation The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, one of this nation's important newspapers, has made a decision to eliminate most of its arts critics and editors... Apr 10, 2007: Free Republic: Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 43 newsroom staffers taking buyout Forty-three newsroom employees at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution have opted to take buyouts offered by the paper as part of a restructuring, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. Nov 29, 2006: Electronic Intifida: Write to thank Atlanta Journal Constitution for honest opinion piece Today, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran the following op-ed by John Dugard, a South African former anti-apartheid leader. Sept 1, 2006: Columbia Journal Review: The AJC Takes the CDC’s Temperature On Sunday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution broke the story that the CDC employees who have been receiving the bulk ofcash awards and performance bonuses are not scientists, but management and administrative personnel.
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