Atlanta Tribune

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Atlanta Tribune
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FrequencyMonthly
FormatNews magazine
Publisher Real Times Media
FounderKermit Thomas
Founded1986
Website atlantatribune.com

The Atlanta Tribune is a monthly news magazine published in Atlanta in the U.S. state of Georgia, focused on the African American business community of that city. [1]

History

Kermit Thomas established the Tribune in 1986, and soon turned it over to George and Patricia Lottier, who built it up, and whose relatives own the Baltimore Afro-American . [2] The paper focuses on a readership of affluent African Americans. [3] [4] The paper is now owned by Real Times Media, publisher of the Michigan Chronicle , the Chicago Defender , and the Atlanta Daily World . [5]

The Rev. Darryl Gray, an alumnus of the Tribune, started the Black-oriented Provincial Monitor in Nova Scotia in 1990. [6] In 2001 Frederick D. Robinson was appointed editor. [7] The Tribune published weekly as of 2004. [8]

The Tribune celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2016. [9] A 2020 Wall Street Journal article noted that the Tribune "celebrated Coke in 2016 with a photo of 17 of the company's Black women executives," but that fewer than half of those executives remained four years later. [10]

A previous publication with the same name was the subject of an investigation for improper fundraising in 1981; however, the papers do not appear to be connected. [11]

References

  1. ↑ "Atlanta Tribune." The American Directory of Writer's Guidelines, 5th edition, compiled by Stephen Blake Mettee, Michelle Doland, and Doris Hall, Quill Driver Books/Word Dancer Press, Inc., 2006, pp. 53–55.
  2. ↑ "Patricia Ann Lottier." The HistoryMakers.
  3. ↑ Poole, Sheila M. "Atlanta Tribune finds its niche among blacks." The Atlanta Constitution, 12 November 1992, p. 87.
  4. ↑ Poe, Janita. "Magazine serves affluent niche." The Atlanta Constitution, 17 September 2000, p. 76.
  5. ↑ "Atlanta Tribune Magazine." Mondo Times.
  6. ↑ "Black-Oriented Paper Launched in Nova Scotia". Editor & Publisher . Duncan McIntosh. December 22, 1990. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Atlanta Tribune picks editor for magazine." The Atlanta Constitution, 10 October 2001, p. 104.
  8. ↑ Fitzgerald, Mark (November 2004). "Black Is Back". Editor & Publisher . Duncan McIntosh. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  9. ↑ Floyd, Safon. "The Atlanta Tribune celebrates 30 years of publishing." Black Enterprise, 17 May 2016.
  10. ↑ Maloney, Jennifer; Weber, Lauren (December 17, 2020). "Coke's Elusive Goal: Boosting Its Black Employees—Two decades after historic lawsuit, its diversity efforts have lost ground". The Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition. p. A1.
  11. ↑ Epstein, Gail. "Not Raising Funds, Says Publisher." The Atlanta Constitution, 19 June 1981, p. 53.
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