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Atlanta Journal-Constitution company history timeline

1883

The newspaper that covered Dixie like the dew was first published on February 24, 1883, Today in Georgia History.

1887

E.F. Hoge founded the Journal, then sold it in 1887 to a young lawyer named Hoke Smith for $10,000.

1892

President Grover Cleveland appointed Smith secretary of the interior after the Journal’s endorsement in 1892.

1898

The paper was liberal in its editorial policies from the time of Grady, although it did, under the editorship of Clark Howell, support American intervention in Cuba before the Spanish-American War of 1898.

1900

Smith sold the Journal in 1900, and popular innovations followed, including a Sunday magazine that published some of the South’s leading writers like Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Mitchell.

2001

For many years a merged paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, was published on weekends until the two papers were fully merged in 2001.

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