It’s time to stop the presses on the AJC, but news will still be reported
Making way for what’s next in news for restless, ambitious Atlanta
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s final Sunday edition rolls off the printing press in Gainesville on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. Wednesday’s paper is the last printed edition of the AJC. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)
The city of Atlanta rarely indulges in nostalgia. Since Union troops set fire to the city during the Civil War, the city has made a habit of paving over its past. Even grand structures like Atlanta’s Terminal Station or the Beaux-Arts Carnegie Library have long since been torn down to make way for a new skyscraper, a new library or just a $10 parking lot for suburbanites to stash their cars during Falcons games.
The 25-year-old Georgia Dome got the wrecking ball when it was deemed old and tired. And Hank Aaron’s famous 715th home run wall is now just a marker in the middle of yet another parking lot. While the old in other cities, like Savannah or Charleston, is beloved and preserved, the old in Atlanta has always only ever gotten in the way of what’s new and next.
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Patricia Murphy is the AJC’s senior political columnist. She was previously a nationally syndicated columnist for CQ Roll Call, national political reporter for the Daily Beast and Politics Daily, and wrote for The Washington Post and Garden & Gun. She graduated from Vanderbilt and holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
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