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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The January 12, 2007 front page of
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet

Owner Cox Enterprises
Publisher John Mellott
Founded Constitution: 1868
Journal: 1883
Journal-Constitution: 2001
Headquarters 72 Marietta Street NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
 United States
Circulation 326,907 Daily
497,149 Sunday[1]
ISSN 1539-7459

Website: ajc.com

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the only major daily newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia, USA and its suburbs. The AJC, as it is called, is the flagship publication of Cox Enterprises. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the result of the merger between The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution. The staff was combined in 1982. Separate delivery of the morning Constitution and afternoon Journal ended in 2001.[2] The AJC reaches a total print and online audience of more than 2.3 million people each week. Every month, more than 3.5 million unique visitors access the newspaper's Web sites, including ajc.com and accessAtlanta.com.[3] Since 2003, the paper has also published accessAtlanta, a free tabloid-sized entertainment paper.

Subsequent to the staff consolidation of 1982, the afternoon Journal maintained a center-right editorial stance, while the editorials and op-eds in the morning Constitution were reliably liberal. When the editions combined in 2001, the editorial page staffs also merged. The editorials and op-eds have attempted to strike a more "balanced" tone. Most of the paper's editorial stances have been closer to those of the old Constitution. The combined paper endorsed John Kerry for president in 2004; in 2000 the Constitution endorsed Al Gore while the Journal endorsed George W. Bush. The paper condemned Bush's decision to allow the National Security Agency to spy on phone conversations in the United States without a warrant by calling his actions a "clear, present danger".

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