The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Prints Final Newspaper, Shifts To All-Digital Format (cbsnews.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/02/074243/the-atlanta-journal-constitution-prints-final-newspaper-shifts-to-all-digital-format
- Source link: https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/atlanta-journal-constitution-prints-final-edition-shifts-to-all-digital-format/
> The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has [1]printed its final newspaper , marking the end of a 157-year chapter in Georgia history and officially transitioning the longtime publication into a fully digital news outlet.
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> The front-page story of the final print edition asks a fitting question: "What is the future of local media in Atlanta?" The historic last issue is also being sold for $8, a significant increase from the typical $2.00 price.
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> Wednesday, Dec. 31, marks the last day The AJC will be delivered to driveways across metro Atlanta. Starting Jan. 1, 2026, the newspaper will exist exclusively online, a move its leadership says reflects how readers now consume news and ensures the organization's future.
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> AJC President and Publisher Andrew Morse said the decision was not made lightly, especially given how deeply the paper is woven into daily life for generations of readers.
The move makes Atlanta the only major U.S. city without a daily printed newspaper.
[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/atlanta-journal-constitution-prints-final-edition-shifts-to-all-digital-format/
Something lost without paper (Score:2, Insightful)
As more and more information is moved to the digital realm, vast quantities of that information will be lost over time. Not the big stuff such as political or international news, or the passing of some well known person, but the middling every day things such as notices for events or local interest stories.
Without a physical paper product, time capsules become mmore difficult to create. Not that they can't be created, but it's always been a part of the process to include a newspaper with the capsule so in
"All the News That's NOT Fit to Print" (Score:2)
Fixed that.
90% of American Media is billionaire owned (Score:2, Interesting)
Back in the day I can pick up a newspaper and there would be useful information in there. Now it's just pro billionaire propaganda.
Why in the name of fuck am I going to pay a dollar for propaganda I can get for free on the internet?
If I want journalism the only thing left is factual reporting from the associate press that I have to interpret myself, a handful of YouTubers who got kicked off of Twitter when muskrat bought it and the BBC and freaking Reddit posts. I am starting to see some of the old
Re:90% of American Media is billionaire owned (Score:4, Insightful)
Are you daft? Were Hearst and Puliter "real journalism?" They were Yellow Journalsim at best.
And muckraker? You must absolutely adore Bob Woodward.
GTFO, you're recalling an era that never existed.
Was Cronkite straight with the US when he lied about the action in Tonkin? No. He was lying for the government.
There's no real news, only propaganda.
Reading is fundamental (Score:2)
You take the yellow journalism and muckraking and you make a bunch of money off of it. That finances the real journalism that you're doing.
They're simply isn't enough people willing to pay to see corruption exposed. Donald Trump has sold at least two or three billion dollars in pardons but you barely hear about it because nobody's interested in it to speak of.
In the past there would have been somebody writing stories about celebrity sex tapes to pay the bills and then during the day pounding the bea
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If there's no real news how do you determine the facts or truth of anything? Do not answer with "common sense" because that is itself nonsensical.
IMO people are free to have that view, everything is propaganda, etc and that's fine. The issue is when those same people have strong opinions about specific topics and facts, they got them from somewhere. If you have no method to inform your opinions then simply you simply do not have opinions.
At some point we have to agree on some form of factual reality or n
Dinosaur (Score:3)
I guess I'm a dinosaur because I still subscribe to a daily print newspaper (specifically, the [1]The Globe and Mail [theglobeandmail.com].
I like sitting down to breakfast with my paper and reading it in a nice leisurely way. I find I concentrate better and read longer with print media than online media; it's easier on the eyes. And although the print subscription is expensive, I can afford it and I deliberately keep it going to support real journalism.
But yeah. I know I'm a dying breed.
[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/
Any news recommendations out there? (Score:2)
No joke, a serious question. UT in San Diego has been dregs for years, and now I'm given up on WSJ.
Any recommendations for unbiased news with professionals running the show? I'm not expecting free, just properly done.
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NPR, Although Trump is having a fair bit of success in his efforts to kill it.
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I quite like [1]The Globe and Mail [theglobeandmail.com], though it's Canadian.
Online, I find [2]Deutsche Welle [dw.com] pretty good and also [3]France 24 [france24.com].
Not sure about a US-based source. I keep seeing ads for [4]Ground News [ground.news], but that's more of a meta-source that rates other sources for bias and accuracy. And of course, I have no idea how accurate or biased Ground News itself is.
[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/
[2] https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097
[3] https://www.france24.com/en/
[4] https://ground.news/
Not just "news" papers (Score:1)
It's not just the papers that print news.
A friend of mine owned and operated a paper that printed free classified ads. The classified ads were free and he made his money by selling business display ads in the paper and by selling the printed paper itself.
After 26 years of operation, he just printed his last issue and closed up shop a couple of weeks ago. He said that the whole classified ad thing has moved online and there's just not enough demand left for what he was selling.
The first of many (Score:3)
Maybe the first major US city without a print paper, but won't be the last.
Just being honest, the newspaper print format is obsolete.
It's a day behind and requires an extensive manual infrastructure for proofing, printing, distributing, collections.
Online journalism has no requirement for quality, for proofing, for integrity or needs any of that manual infrastructure.
Basically rent space from AWS, publish whatever garbage you want to publish, collect the ad revenue. The more outlandish you write - the more eyeballs you get - the more ad revenue rolls in.
It's sad, of course, but I don't see a form of recovery for newsprint. It's just not going to happen.
Re:The first of many (Score:4, Insightful)
> It's sad, of course, but I don't see a form of recovery for newsprint. It's just not going to happen.
Not that there's any recovery for journalism, either. Journalism cannot be trusted, not since at least Hearst and Pulitzer's lies getting us into the Spanish-American War, not since Cronkite gave us the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
Face it, we've never had, and never will have, clear concise unbiased journalism.
the best we can do is ensure each side has an equal (in numbers and in power) news org of their own.
That way you know if it's coming from CNN it's leftist news, and if it's Faux it's rightist news. Clarity comes from known both are bullshit peddlers.
Newspapers are the same. NYT panders to the "educated leftist elite" and NYP panders to what you fuckwits would call 'the deplorables."
No truth in Pravda, no news in Izvestia.
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I actually agree - the old "Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see" applies. But even that is morphing - can't really believe anything you see, either.
Not sure where it all ends, but really can't trust any source of information... not only is it too easy to manipulate (always has been) - but the difference is that now it's easy to find an echo chamber and amplify. Used to be that real fringe stuff would peter out naturally; now it grows unabated.
(Though I have to ask - "you fuckwits"
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> (Though I have to ask - "you fuckwits"? What did I say to earn that? Don't think I'm leaning any direction here, except maybe the path straight down to hell.)
Not you personally. But, you must admit, there's a large contingent of /. readers that fall into the "fuckwit" category. They've been silent in this thread so far, but I figure as they go about their day they'll get to it to chime in with their ridiculous comments.
They know who they are. Any regular knows who they are.
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One problem I see in getting better overage is both sides unwillingness to appear on the other side's outlets. It happens on occasion, but should be commonplace rateh rthan unusual and newsworthy. Yea, you'd get hit with gotcha questions, but if you are good you can at least get your viewpoint out.
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> Just being honest, the newspaper print format is obsolete.
The daily format, yes. The Internet has killed that.
But I think there's still some room for print journalism under certain conditions, and profitably so as well, if done right.
Many moons ago, I used to get the Washington Post's Weekly Edition . I don't know if they do it anymore, but it was a newspaper, mailed to your home once a week, that had longer, more in-depth investigative stories and analysis on the issues of the day than you'd find in the daily papers, as well as an opinion and editorial section. I