Mirtha Donastorg

Mirtha Donastorg is a reporter on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s business team focusing on Black wealth, entrepreneurship, and minority-owned businesses as well as innovation at Atlanta’s HBCUs. Most recently she was the HBCU Innovation Editor at The Plug, exploring research, business and tech innovations coming from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Latest from Mirtha Donastorg

AJC poll: Georgians want government to regulate AI; most oppose data centers.

The majority of Republicans and Democrats support regulation of artificial intelligence. The gap widens when it comes to data center construction and surveillance cameras.

AI: Atlanta Intelligence?

An exclusive look at how the city of Atlanta is using AI, plus who is really paying the price for data centers and Porsche’s latest sports car.

Delta will revamp service in its highest-class seats. Here’s what changes.

Delta Air Lines is unveiling new offerings for its Delta One cabin.

Delta revenue continues to increase while fuel costs rise

The airline is weathering much higher prices for aviation fuel.

Hyundai expanding West Point factory, adding 320 jobs

The company is investing more than $500 million to expand the facility.

Atlanta-based marketing agency joins global company in nine-figure deal

Get Engaged, the company behind viral campaigns with Post Malone and Alix Earle, is joining forces with Madrid-based SAMY. It will keep its home base in Atlanta.

Her firm was targeted by the anti-DEI movement. Now she’s telling her story.

In a new book, Simone, the CEO of the Fearless Fund, lays out how the case was the start of an anti-DEI movement in the U.S.

Data centers, factories bring billions to Georgia. New report asks who benefits.

Across six states in the Deep South — Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee — investment in data centers, factories and infrastructure is booming.

Atlanta airport spills estimated 33,000 gallons of sewage near Sullivan Creek

This is the latest spill of fuel, sewage and other substances from the airport affecting the Flint River and two of the waterways that feed it, Sullivan Creek and Mud Creek.

Raphael Bostic is ‘looking for the next chapter’ after leading Atlanta Fed

Former CEO speaks with the AJC about his postretirement life, the search for the next Atlanta Fed president and how to make the economy work for everyone.