RIP The Atlanta Journal

[silverscreenselect]

Atlanta's daily newspaper for over a century will cease publication of a printed newspaper on December 31 and go to a digital-only operation. Subscribers will receive a daily email containing the digital version of the paper where they can access all the articles for that day. The current newspaper is the result of a merger between the former morning newspaper, the Atlanta Constitution and the evening paper, the Atlanta Journal, in 2001.

I'm curious what Skoop thinks of this development.

[BackInTex]

Sad, but not unexpected. I do miss getting a daily paper and really miss getting a Sunday paper.

Smashing my Silly Putty on the computer screen not only makes a mess, it doesn't work to make a reverse image on the putty.

[Bob Juch]

Sad, but not unexpected. I do miss getting a daily paper and really miss getting a Sunday paper.

Smashing my Silly Putty on the computer screen not only makes a mess, it doesn't work to make a reverse image on the putty.

You need to hook up a 3D printer.

[Ritterskoop]

We use stories from the AJC on the Braves and Falcons and on Georgia and Georgia Tech football.

Our chain has 29 newspapers, five of which run six days a week. The others run Wed/Sun, or Wed/Fri/Sun. A ridiculous number of of them (maybe all) are delivered by the postal service, so they are not morning papers any more.

So it is truly a digital industry, and we do indeed provide a shitload of content only online. Somehow we are still in business - it seems to have helped to have merged with A360, which includes Parade and US Weekly.

But to be true, I have been mulling early retirement, or what would come next. Because at any moment, we can start work, and have them say, it's done. Our fingernails won't hold us up on this cliff any longer.

I'm thinking a nonprofit, but certainly some kind of service work. We'll see. I feel like we could redefine our media company and this industry by going nonprofit, but no one has asked me.

[silverscreenselect]

I have a print subscription to the Journal (which will obviously be ending at the end of the year). They haven't yet notified me about renewal options. I looked up some yearly rates for digital newspapers. These are the standard rates, although some of them have teaser introductory rates for the first few months.

CNN $30
AJC $100
USA Today $120
Washington Post $120
New York Times $325

The USA Today also has a print subscription available five days a week. I'm paying a lot more for the print copy of the AJC.