Atlanta Georgian

Atlanta Georgian

Infobox Newspaper
name = Atlanta Georgian


caption = 1913 "Georgian" front page
type = Daily newspaper
format = Broadsheet
foundation = 1906
ceased publication = 1939
price =
owners = Hearst Corporation
James M. Cox
publisher =
editor =
language =
political =
circulation = 75,178
headquarters = Atlanta, GA, U.S.
ISSN =
website = N/A

"The Atlanta Georgian" was a daily afternoon newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded by New Jersey native, Fred Loring Seely, the first issue was April 25,1906 with editor John Temple Graves. They mainly railed against saloons and the convict lease system and in February 1907, Seely expanded the paper by buying out the Atlanta News. [Garrett, Vol.II, p.498] The paper was struggling when William Randolph Hearst purchased it in the spring of 1912 (his ninth newspaper property [http://www.hearstcastle.org/history/william_r_hearst.asp Hearst acquisition] ) and it was transformed into a yellow press making it much more successful if less respected. The paper was awarded the Sutlive Trophy, given by the Georgia Press Association, in 1927. By the 1930s it was the third largest paper in Atlanta with a circulation of 75,000: far behind the Journal (98,000) and the Constitution (91,000). ["Time Magazine", Dec. 25, 1939, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,762141,00.html] In 1939, James M. Cox purchased it at the same time as the Atlanta Journal (now The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) and the "Georgian" was immediately closed down with its last issue being Monday December 18,1939. By this time the Hearst empire had shrunk to under 20 newspapers.

ee also

*List of newspapers in Atlanta

References

* Garrett, Franklin, "Atlanta and Its Environs", 1954, University of Georgia Press.

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