Atlanta Georgian
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| Atlanta Georgian | |
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 1913 Georgian front page |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | Hearst Corporation James M. Cox |
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| Ceased publication | 1939 |
| Headquarters | Atlanta, GA, U.S. |
| Circulation | 75,178 |
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| Website: N/A | |
The Atlanta Georgian was a daily afternoon newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia. It was struggling when William Randolph Hearst purchased it in 1912 (his ninth newspaper property[1]) and it was transformed into a yellow press making it much more successful if less respected. 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). [2] In 1939, James M. Cox purchased it at the same time as the Atlanta Journal and the Georgian was immediately closed down. By this time the Hearst empire had shrunk to under 20 newspapers.
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- ^ http://www.hearstcastle.org/history/william_r_hearst.asp Hearst acquisition
- ^ Time Magazine, Dec. 25, 1939, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,762141,00.html
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