Atlanta Journal-Constitution to Quit Print Cold Turkey
When Andrew Morse joined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as its president and publisher in January 2023, the company had plans to stop printing the newspaper by that June. He quickly hit the brakes.
The timing was not right, he told his new colleagues. The Journal-Constitution’s digital news product was not yet robust enough to compel enough readers to subscribe and make it profitable on its own.
Now, he said, the right time has come.
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