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The Atlanta Journal-Structure (AJC) introduced Thursday that it’ll cease publishing a print newspaper on the finish of the 12 months, chopping dozens of jobs within the course of.
The final print version will run on Dec. 31, and the change will “end result within the elimination of about 30 full- and part-time jobs concerned in designing and distributing the newspaper” because the Atlanta Journal-Structure shifts to digital-only publishing.
“We’ll start the brand new 12 months as a completely digital group, dedicated, as all the time, to being probably the most important and fascinating information supply for the folks of Atlanta, Georgia, and the South,” President and Writer Andrew Morse wrote in a letter to subscribers.
The Atlanta Journal-Structure will publish its last print version on Dec. 31. (Getty Photos)
“This resolution now could be one of the best factor we will do so as to ensure that the AJC is as related for the subsequent 157 years because it has been for the final,” Morse added.
Morse held a city corridor with staffers Thursday to clarify the adjustments, suggesting the transfer displays a shift within the media business as synthetic intelligence begins to reshape on-line search and information organizations can not depend on social media platforms to drive visitors.
“The excellent news for us is our whole technique over the previous two and a half years has been targeted on constructing direct relationships with prospects,” Morse advised staffers.
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The Atlanta Journal-Structure introduced Thursday that it’ll not publish a print newspaper. (iStock)
“The strain on the enterprise is simply accelerating,” Morse stated. “The truth that we’re rising regardless of these pressures is a testomony to the exhausting work we’ve completed, however we’ve to place all our effort into the longer term.”
The transfer underscores the continued transformation of native journalism, as legacy papers nationwide face falling advert income, declining print subscriptions and the unpredictable impression of synthetic intelligence and algorithm-driven information discovery.
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The Atlanta Journal-Structure will lower about 30 positions. (Getty / Getty Photos)
Morse additionally advised The New York Occasions that print papers are not an environment friendly solution to ship data.
“The very fact is, printing newspapers and placing them in vehicles and driving them round and delivering them on folks’s entrance stoops has not been the simplest solution to distribute the information in a really very long time,” Morse advised the Occasions.
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The AJC stated circulation peaked at greater than 600,000 20 years in the past, however solely about 40,000 subscribers nonetheless obtain the print version.
