Saw this buried in a story on the bottom of page A8. I'd love to know what their circulation was a few years ago. This just covers the past six months so no excuses about no longer delivering to certain counties, like the past few times they've announced their readership has plummeted.
"Daily circulation of the AJC dropped 24.7 percent, to 195,582; Sunday circulation was down 13.9 percent, to 397,925."
Under 200K? Wow. I will say this: It reads like a 50K sports section these days. Gamers, notebooks, columns and a whole bunch of wire. They actually has 6 mostly open pages today (other than the strip ad on the front), which makes it one of the bigger weekday sections they've had. I think the centerpiece is the Hawks. I say "I think" because the photo is 2 columns, the same size as the other one on the page, to go with a prep baseball feature.
They had a stringer at UGA-Georgia Tech baseball game (in Atlanta). Another stringer wrote what they call the "cover story" (on the topic everyone's talking about in Atlanta — Kennesaw State lacrosse). Another stringer wrote the prep soccer previews.
Talladega wire centerpiece yesterday. Also a wire story on the cover on a local guy winning a PGA event.
No way any section has fallen harder than this one. The rest of the paper's about the same it's been as far as staff byline counts and space. Sports clearly just doesn't matter to them anymore. It's sad.
"Daily circulation of the AJC dropped 24.7 percent, to 195,582; Sunday circulation was down 13.9 percent, to 397,925."
Under 200K? Wow. I will say this: It reads like a 50K sports section these days. Gamers, notebooks, columns and a whole bunch of wire. They actually has 6 mostly open pages today (other than the strip ad on the front), which makes it one of the bigger weekday sections they've had. I think the centerpiece is the Hawks. I say "I think" because the photo is 2 columns, the same size as the other one on the page, to go with a prep baseball feature.
They had a stringer at UGA-Georgia Tech baseball game (in Atlanta). Another stringer wrote what they call the "cover story" (on the topic everyone's talking about in Atlanta — Kennesaw State lacrosse). Another stringer wrote the prep soccer previews.
Talladega wire centerpiece yesterday. Also a wire story on the cover on a local guy winning a PGA event.
No way any section has fallen harder than this one. The rest of the paper's about the same it's been as far as staff byline counts and space. Sports clearly just doesn't matter to them anymore. It's sad.
