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The Atlanta Constitution, the older of the two predecessor papers, first published on the 16th of June 1868, after its founders purchased a small paper called the Atlanta Daily Opinion. The Atlanta Journal launched separately in 1883. The two staffs merged in 1982, and a single morning paper under the Journal-Constitution name began in November 2001.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published its last print edition on the 31st of December 2025, and moved to an exclusively digital format. The paper had roughly 40,000 print subscribers at the time, down from a peak of 630,000 in 2004.
Journalists at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and its predecessor papers have won more than a dozen Pulitzer Prizes. Notable winners include Ralph McGill (1959), Jack Nelson (1960), Bill Dedman (1989), Mike Luckovich (1995 and 2006), Cynthia Tucker (2007), and managing editor Hank Klibanoff (2007).
In 1996, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was the first newspaper to report that Richard Jewell was being investigated as a suspect in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing, citing leaked FBI information. The AJC has never retracted the story by reporters Kathy Scruggs and Ron Martz. Jewell was eventually cleared and died in 2007 at age 44.
AJC president Andrew Morse set a target of 500,000 paid digital subscribers by the end of 2026 to make the business financially sustainable. As of August 2025, the paper reported only 75,000 digital-only subscribers, up from 55,000 in 2023.
Margaret Mitchell worked for The Atlanta Journal, one of the two predecessor papers of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, from 1922 to 1926. She wrote profiles of prominent Georgia Civil War generals for the paper's Sunday magazine, research that scholars believe contributed to her 1936 novel Gone with the Wind.