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Its equipment was donated to what was then known as Georgia School of Technology, which used it to help launch WBBF (later WGST, now WGKA AM 920) in January 1924. However, WGM ceased operations after just over a year. The Constitution established one of the first radio broadcasting stations, WGM, which began operating on March 17, 1922, two days after the debut of the Journal's WSB. Evan Howell's family would come to own The Atlanta Constitution from 1902 to 1950. Grady was a spokesman for the " New South", encouraging industrial development as well as the founding of Georgia Tech in Atlanta. In October 1876 the newspaper was renamed as The Daily Constitution, before settling on the name The Atlanta Constitution in September 1881.
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The Howell family would eventually own full interest in the paper from 1902 until 1950.Ĭharlotte Perkins Gilman (pictured) wrote these articles about feminism for the Atlanta Constitution, published on December 10, 1916. He soon created the character of Uncle Remus, a black storyteller, as a way of recounting stories from African-American culture. That same year, Joel Chandler Harris began writing for the paper. In 1876 Captain Evan Howell (a former Intelligencer city editor) purchased the 50 percent interest in the paper from E. In August 1875 its name changed to The Atlanta Daily Constitution for two weeks, then to The Constitution again for about a year. The newspaper became such a force that by 1871 it had overwhelmed the Daily Intelligencer, the only Atlanta paper to survive the American Civil War. In active competition with other Atlanta newspapers, Hemphill hired special trains (one engine and car) to deliver newspapers to the Macon marketplace. In 1870 Anderson sold his one half interest in the paper to Col. He was forced to surrender his interest in the paper to Anderson and Hemphill, who then each owned one half. When Styles was unable to liquidate his holdings in an Albany newspaper, he could not pay for his purchase of the Constitution. Hemphill became the business manager, a position that he retained until 1901. Its name changed to The Atlanta Constitution in October 1869. In 1868, Carey Wentworth Styles, along with his joint venture partners James Anderson and (future Atlanta mayor) William Hemphill purchased a small newspaper, the Atlanta Daily Opinion which they renamed The Constitution, as it was originally known, was first published on June 16, 1868. Historic American Buildings Survey image. The Atlanta Constitution Constitution building, 1890 Atlanta Constitution Building, in abandoned state, 1995. The Journal carried the motto "Covers Dixie like the Dew". The radio station and the newspaper were sold in 1939 to James Middleton Cox, founder of what would become Cox Enterprises. In 1922, the Journal founded one of the first radio broadcasting stations in the South, WSB.
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Important for the development of her 1936 Gone With the Wind were the series of profiles of prominent Georgia Civil War generals she wrote for The Atlanta Journal 's Sunday magazine, the research for which, scholars believe, led her to her work on the novel. Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Margaret Mitchell worked for the Journal from 1922 to 1926. After the Journal supported presidential candidate Grover Cleveland in the 1892 election, Smith was named as Secretary of the Interior by the victorious Cleveland. Hoge sold the paper to Atlanta lawyer Hoke Smith in 1887. The Atlanta Journal was established in 1883. It was formerly co-owned with television flagship WSB-TV and six radio stations, which are located separately in midtown Atlanta the newspaper remained part of Cox Enterprises, while WSB became part of an independent Cox Media Group. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has its headquarters in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody, Georgia. Separate publication of the morning Constitution and the afternoon Journal ended in 2001 in favor of a single morning paper under the Journal-Constitution name. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the result of the merger between The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution. It is the flagship publication of Cox Enterprises. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the only major daily newspaper in the metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia. Logo until 2021 Logo in 2005 Logo of The Atlanta Constitution in 2001 Journal-Constitution: 1950 (Sundays) 1976 (Saturday–Sunday) 2001 (Every day merger of weekday morning Constitution and afternoon Journal) Front page of The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionĬonstitution: 1868 155 years ago ( 1868)
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