The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the only major daily newspaper of Atlanta and metro Atlanta. It is the result of the merger between the Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Constitution. The staff was combined in 1982, and all separate delivery of the morning Constitution and afternoon Journal ended in 2001.[1]

Subsequent to the staff consolidation of 1982, the afternoon Journal maintained a center-right editorial page while the editorials and op-eds in the morning Constitution was reliably liberal. When the editions combined in 2001 the editorial page staffs also merged, and the editorials and op-eds have attempted to strike a more "balanced" tone.

During the 1880s, Constitution editor Henry W. Grady was a spokesman for the "New South," encouraging industrial development in the South. Joel Chandler Harris began writing for Grady's paper in 1876 and soon invented the character of Uncle Remus, a black storyteller. Ralph McGill , editor for the Constitution in the 1940s was one of the few southern newspaper editors to support the American Civil Rights Movement. From the 1970s until his death in 1994, Lewis Grizzard was a popular humor columnist for the Constitution, portraying Southern "redneck" culture with a mixture of ridicule and respect. Other editors of the Atlanta Constitution include J. Reginald Murphy.

The Constitution won a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1959 for Ralph McGill's editoral "A Church, A School....", and in 1967 for Eugene Patterson 's editorials. The paper won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1931 for exposing corruption at the local level. The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning went to the Constitiution's Doug Marlette in the 1988 and Mike Luckovich in 1995.

External links

• Official website