Well, I didn’t expect to publish two of my supposedly “periodic” columns in the first week, but there are apparently no boring news days in the news business.

Earlier today, the 157-year-old Atlanta Journal-Constitution announced that it would cease printing (“cold turkey,” as the Times put it when it broke the news, online, naturally) at the end of the year.

Hot take

The news alert hit my phone as I left a meeting. Within minutes, my texts lit up. One friend, a longtime reader, compared it to losing his 94- and 97-year-old parents: “I knew they were going to die, but I just still felt so sad.”

I spoke to the AJC’s President and Publisher, Andrew Morse, on the phone about two hours after the news broke. He stressed this decision wasn’t about money — the print edition was profitable — b

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