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Cynthia Tucker to leave AJC for UGA
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | August 10, 2011 | Special

Posted on 08/10/2011 3:01:11 PM PDT by madprof98

Cynthia Tucker, one of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s highest-profile columnists for more than 20 years, is leaving the AJC to become a visiting professor at the University of Georgia’s journalism school.

Tucker, who won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2007, assumes her new role Aug. 12, the AJC and UGA announced Wednesday.

They said her position at UGA will be part of a partnership between the AJC and the university’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Tucker, 56, was editorial page editor of AJC from 2001 to 2009, when she moved to Washington as a political columnist in a realignment of the opinion-editorial department.

Her last regular column appeared Sunday.

She said Wednesday she feels “a twinge of sadness” at ending her long run as a columnist.

“But I’m very excited at the prospect of teaching at a university and the opportunity that will give me to write in longer form as well,” she said, adding when asked, “There’s definitely a book in my future.”

Tucker said she will move back to Atlanta from Washington and commute to Athens, where she expects to start teaching a course in persuasive writing in the spring semester.

An Alabama native and Auburn University graduate, Tucker began her career in 1976 as a reporter at The Atlanta Journal. After a stint at the Philadelphia Inquirer and as a freelancer, she returned to the Journal as a columnist and editorial writer, then moved to the editorial page of The Atlanta Constitution, which she said was “a better fit for me.” At the time the papers had separate editorial pages, with the Journal leaning right and the Constitution left.

She was promoted to editorial page editor of the Constitution in 1992 and held the same role when the papers’ editorial pages were combined in 2001.

While she is well-known for a liberal take on national politics, the Pulitzer judges honored Tucker for writing passionately on voting rights, racial stereotypes and the failings of African-American leaders.

AJC editor Kevin Riley said Tucker’s column won’t be replaced “because quite simply, there is no replacing Cynthia Tucker.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: academia; ajc; cynthiatucker; democrats; uga
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To: madprof98

Darn !!! I didn’t know Cindy could write !! will wonders cease ?


41 posted on 08/10/2011 8:52:00 PM PDT by contrarian (proud new monthly contributor.)
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To: madprof98

My father earned a Masters in Journalism from UGA in 1952. The bulk of his career was spent in the newsroom of the Savannah Morning News. He believed in reporting facts...not promoting an ideology (socialism, etc), particularly a failed one. Toward the end of his career, 30 years ago, he lamented that his profession was becoming saturated with young mindless journalism school graduates who had been groomed, not to report facts, but to write stories promoting their anti american ideology. Cynthia Tucker brings nothing to UGA but a failed mindset that will continue to indoctrinate students with the same failure.


42 posted on 08/11/2011 5:13:57 AM PDT by LYONS67 (KEEP THE FAITH, STAND UP AND FIGHT, NEVER QUIT!)
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To: junkyarddawg

I will! She loves cupcakes and is a good conservative!


43 posted on 08/11/2011 7:35:47 AM PDT by melissa_in_ga (Hobbit Name: Primula Hamwich of Buckleberry Fern)
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To: melissa_in_ga

On my side of town is the only place she is going to find any conservatives much. Tell her the secret code word is “Freeper Parent” :)


44 posted on 08/11/2011 12:54:39 PM PDT by junkyarddawg
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