Atlanta Georgian

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Atlanta Georgian

1913 Georgian front page
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner Hearst Corporation
James M. Cox
Founded 1906
Ceased publication 1939
Headquarters Atlanta, GA, U.S.
Circulation 75,178
Website: N/A

The Atlanta Georgian was a daily afternoon newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded by New Jersey native, Fred Loring Seely, the first issue was April 25, 1906 with editor John Temple Graves. They mainly railed against saloons and the convict lease system and in February 1907, Seely expanded the paper by buying out the Atlanta News.[1] The paper was struggling when William Randolph Hearst purchased it in the spring of 1912 (his ninth newspaper property[2]) and it was transformed into a yellow press making it much more successful if less respected. The paper was awarded the Sutlive Trophy, given by the Georgia Press Association, in 1927. 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). [3] In 1939, James M. Cox purchased it at the same time as the Atlanta Journal and the Georgian was immediately closed down with its last issue being Monday December 18, 1939. By this time the Hearst empire had shrunk to under 20 newspapers.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  • Garrett, Franklin, Atlanta and Its Environs, 1954, University of Georgia Press.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Garrett, Vol.II, p.498
  2. ^ http://www.hearstcastle.org/history/william_r_hearst.asp Hearst acquisition
  3. ^ Time Magazine, Dec. 25, 1939, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,762141,00.html
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