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DEL.ICIO.USA note from the editor
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This is Maria Saporta’s last column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Maria has decided to take a voluntary buy-out, ending a stellar 27-year journalism career at the AJC, 17 years as a business columnist.
The AJC is a much richer newspaper because of Maria’s ability to work her sources to get scoops about the Atlanta business community and tell stories about the leaders who shape this town.
We wish Maria the best as she moves on to new endeavors.
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By Jim Vaughan
August 31, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this
Maria— All the best to you in the future. I’ll miss your column and your insights on development in Atlanta.
By John Gallery
September 1, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this
Julia Wallace did not have to take a buy-out, because she was a sell-out. Preside over your shrinking empire, and remember to keep moving those deck chairs around. Your time is coming. It is inevitable.
By crobertson
September 1, 2008 7:41 PM | Link to this
My goodness….and where does cost cutting intercede dramatically with solid journalistic reporting.
By Mad As Zell
September 2, 2008 2:19 AM | Link to this
When it comes to the (A)che-(J)-(C), there is no such thing anymore as “solid journalistic reporting”. So let the “cost-cutting” axe of the Grim Reaper continue. The Al-Jazeera Constipation has ran off any employee, reader or sponsor that ever loved true journalistic integrity (see Maria Saporta), Metro Atlanta, the State of Georgia and the South. The Fat Lady hasn’t sung for the Atlanta Urinal Constitution just yet, but she sure is warming up! So how about a song or two for Atlanta’s “leading” urine and feces stained rag? A proper ending for a sorry dirtbag/slimebag/douchebag excuse of a left-wing publication! Cheers, punks! Kindling, anyone? Burn, baby, burn! Liberal inferno! Pretty soon, the Gwinnett Daily Post will have more readers than your worthless sleazebag excuse of a scumbag-deluged newspaper.
By BPJ
September 2, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this
Whose bright idea was it to offer a buyout to one of the best reasons to read the AJC?
By NY Transplant
September 3, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this
Ditto BPJ! Ms. Saporta’s columns was one of the only reasons I even bother to read the local rag. What a loss for Atlanta. More shortsightedness in a shortsighted city. Atlanta will never achieve that it is capable of. Where there is no vision, the people perish. This is what’s happening, right before our eyes.
By Richard Shupert
September 3, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
I wanted to know what were the results of the meeting several weeks ago at the Georgia Power building in regards to making an outdoor park over the parking lots at the Civic Center and expanding the new housing in the old 4th ward around Piedmont. I think this is a great idea to create new parks over existing structures. Please let me know the status of those talks.
Thanks,
Richard Shupert
By William Johnson
September 5, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this
The loss of Saporta is a loss for the quality of the paper and she will be missed. Is there any chance of a similar buyout for that Cynthia Tucker. That would be a real improvement for the AJC.