Atlanta Journal-Constitution shrinks circulation area, cuts 156 jobs (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | December 10, 2008 | Staff

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will reduce its circulation area to 27 counties in and around metro Atlanta and cut 56 full-time and 100 part-time jobs as the media industry faces “unprecedented economic challenges,” the company said Wednesday.

The cutback — the third such move since early 2007 — will eliminate circulation to 22 counties: Banks, Butts, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Greene, Habersham, Haralson, Heard, Jackson, Lumpkin, Morgan, Pickens, Rabun, Spalding, Towns, Troup, Union, and White in Georgia, along with Cherokee, Clay and Macon counties in North Carolina. The change is effective Jan. 11.

The move will reduce daily and Sunday circulation about 5 percent. But it will not significantly affect overall readership — a measure of readers rather than the number of copies — because that is based on a 28-county area, the AJC said.

The company said 215 employees have been offered involuntary severance packages as part of a restructuring of the circulation department, but that they may apply for 59 jobs created by the changes. The net reduction is 156 full- and part-time positions.

Metro newspapers around the country are grappling with revenue declines that have worsened amid the economic downturn this fall. Expanded online operations have so far not generated enough revenue to offset the drops.

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Thursday morning good news!

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[freedomlover]

Thanks
ATL ping
There are few things I detest more than that paper.
Yesterday it included a byline above the fold saying that prosecutors had said that O was not guilty of any wrongdoing

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[Mobile Vulgus]

The Atlanta Urinal and Constipation strikes again!

[Joe Boucher]

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, is a dreadful paper.
I won’t call it a newspaper cause the news it sees fit to print little resembles news.
When I drive through Atlanta I pick one up and the classifieds are reasonable, the rest sucks.

[ken5050]

If the NY Times decides not to print a few days each week, would they change their name to the

"The New York SomeTimes"

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[ken5050]

Is Cynthia Tucker getting the ax?

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Tucker will turn out the lights. Her vile hate is the very soul of that pestilence.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Damn good news.Warms my heart.I guess they may have to get a real job now.

[quadrant]

Dreadful isn't the word for the AJC. The only description of the AJC I can imagine is liberal stupid. I moved from Atlanta to the SF bay area. The Chronicle is more left wing than the AJC, but the Chon isn't stupid, at least overtly. The AJC is just plain stupid, and liberal - the two worst combinations.

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BUY THE MIAMI HERALD

We are raising money to purchase the Miami Herald before some evil entity gets their hands on it.

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Another little daub of good news...

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[Grampa Dave]

For decades, the Atlanta Urinal Constipation has been one of the worse left wing fishwraps.

[GOPJ]

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will reduce its circulation area to 27 counties in and around metro Atlanta...

Any circulation beyond the reach of advertisers ( those people who support the paper) is pure ego. Big fat editor ego.