United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798Perry, Chuck2004-01-05Encyclopedia article on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Few cities in America have a daily newspaper that has published continuously for more than 100 years. Until recently, Atlanta had two--the Atlanta Constitution, first published on June 16, 1868, and the Atlanta Journal, which debuted on February 24, 1883. The longtime rivals, which had been under common ownership since March 1950, merged on November 5, 2001, and are currently published daily under a joint masthead. The Journal-Constitution is the largest daily newspaper in the Southeast, with an average daily circulation of 640,000.The Journal and Constitution have won numerous Pulitzer Prizes and have nurtured the careers of many famous journalists, including: Henry W. Grady, whose lobbying efforts set the stage for the South's agricultural and industrial growth following a difficult Reconstruction period; Joel Chandler Harris, whose colorful Uncle Remus tales--African American folk tales written in dialect--first appeared in the Constitution; Margaret Mitchell, the author of the international best-seller Gone With the Wind; Ralph McGill, a passionate voice of reason in the early days of the civil rights movement, whose personal essays--a new journalistic form--ran on the front page of the Constitution.text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Atlanta journal-constitutionAtlanta (Ga.)--NewspapersGeorgia--NewspapersJournalism--Georgia--AtlantaGrady, Henry Woodfin, 1850-1889Howell, Clark, 1863-1936Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908Smith, Hoke, 1855-1931McGill, Ralph, 1898-1969Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949Atlanta journal-constitutionText