After more than a decade in the northern suburbs, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is returning its main office to the city.
The news outlet signed a lease at Promenade Central along Peachtree Street near the Woodruff Arts Center, renting about 21,000 square feet for a newsroom and studio. It’s a pivotal move for Georgia’s newspaper of record, which left its longtime downtown offices nearly 14 years ago, first for a location in Dunwoody and later Sandy Springs.
By moving to Midtown, Publisher and President Andrew Morse said the AJC is planting its flag at the center of the community it covers.
“We are The ATLANTA Journal-Constitution,” he said with emphasis. “It’s really important to be at the beating heart of the city.”
The AJC and its predecessors — the Atlanta Constitution and Atlanta Journal — operated bustling newsrooms in downtown Atlanta for 140 years. The AJC moved from its location at 72 Marietta Street after the Great Recession, opting to relocate near the campus of its parent company Cox Enterprises in the Central Perimeter area. The Marietta Street building was donated to the city in 2010.
Morse, a former CNN executive who joined the AJC in early 2023, said returning the AJC’s operations and news staff to Atlanta is intended to reconnect to the city’s readership amid a new wave of editorial and newsroom investment.
“Our home is a reflection of who we are. This location really embodies the spirit of what the new AJC is,” Morse said. “We have an ambition to reintroduce the brand, to transform ourselves into a modern media company and to reconnect, frankly, to segments of our audience that we haven’t been as close to in recent years.”
Morse has laid out substantial goals for the AJC to grow its paid digital subscriber base to 500,000 by the end of 2026. That effort involves hiring about 100 people in the coming years, placing editorial staff in cities around Georgia and…
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