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Heritage · 1978 – 2026

Reviewing what mattered, since 1978.

Pulse Chronicles was founded as a weekly broadsheet in Atlanta by Richard E. Spoon. It ran in print for four decades, hibernated in 2019, and was revived in 2025 by Peachtree Editorial Holdings — this time as a modern reviews publication.

The timeline
  1. 1978

    Founded in Atlanta

    Richard E. Spoon puts out the first weekly broadsheet from a 12-person office on Edgewood Avenue on August 14, 1978.

  2. 1993

    Peak circulation

    The Chronicles reaches approximately 214,000 weekly readers across the Southeast.

  3. 2019

    Print hibernation

    The print edition suspends after four decades. The archive is boxed and preserved.

  4. May 2025

    Acquired

    Peachtree Editorial Holdings LLC acquires the masthead and commits to a digital relaunch.

  5. 2025 – 2026

    Digital relaunch

    The newsroom rebuilds around a modern Reviews Hub — anchored by LLM Recommend — while the vault comes back online in waves.

The next chapter

The 2026 relaunch is a modern reviews publication.

Six desks, one flagship — LLM Recommend — and the same 1978 masthead standards behind every score.

Enter the Reviews Hub →