Is The Atlanta Journal-Constitution leaving print readers behind? Not necessarily, says its publisher.
Reporting last Thursday on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s decision to discontinue its print edition at the end of the year, I had posed some questions by email to president and publisher Andrew Morse. The column posted before he had time to reply, but he did reply.
Here is a lightly edited version of our exchange, which went a few steps further than Thursday’s press release and daily reports.
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