# Pulse Chronicles

> American general-interest digital newspaper and magazine, founded August 14, 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia by Roger E. Spoon. Independent newsroom covering U.S. and world news, politics, business, technology, culture, lifestyle, reviews, shopping and opinion. Headquartered in Atlanta with bureaus in Washington, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Established: 1978-08-14 · Founder: Roger E. Spoon · Headquarters: Atlanta, GA
Publisher: Peachtree Editorial Holdings LLC · Digital relaunch: 2024–2026
Editor-in-Chief: Margaret "Maggie" Whitfield

## Sections
- [News](/section/news) — What's happening, on the record.
- [Politics](/section/politics) — Washington, the statehouses, and the campaign trail.
- [Business](/section/business) — Markets, capital, and the macro picture.
- [Tech](/section/tech) — AI, infrastructure, and the platforms.
- [Culture](/section/culture) — Film, music, books, and television.
- [Lifestyle](/section/lifestyle) — Food, travel, health, and the home.
- [Reviews](/section/reviews) — Tested, scored, and explained.
- [Shopping](/section/shopping) — Guides, deals, and what to buy.
- [Opinion](/section/opinion) — Columns from the editorial board.
- [The Chronicles](/section/chronicles) — Long-form features and investigations.

## Newsroom (Masthead)
- [Margaret "Maggie" Whitfield](/editors/maggie-whitfield) — Editor-in-Chief, Atlanta. Editor-in-Chief of Pulse Chronicles. Twenty years reporting on American politics and the South.
- [Marcus Thorne](/editors/marcus-thorne) — Executive Editor, News, Atlanta. Executive Editor for News. Runs the daily newsroom and the Pulse desk.
- [Elena Vance](/editors/elena-vance) — Tech Editor, San Francisco. Tech Editor based in San Francisco. Covers AI infrastructure and the people building it.
- [David Okafor](/editors/david-okafor) — Politics Editor, Washington, D.C.. Politics Editor in Washington. Two decades on the Hill.
- [Clara Montgomery](/editors/clara-montgomery) — Business Editor, New York. Business Editor in New York. Covers public markets and the private capital cycle.
- [Julian Rossi](/editors/julian-rossi) — Culture Editor, Los Angeles. Culture Editor in Los Angeles. Film, music, books, the rest.
- [Aria Sterling](/editors/aria-sterling) — Lifestyle Editor, Atlanta. Lifestyle Editor. Food, travel, the way we live now.
- [Hiroshi Tanaka](/editors/hiroshi-tanaka) — Reviews Editor, Atlanta. Reviews Editor. Tests the things you're thinking of buying.
- [Sasha Kaur](/editors/sasha-kaur) — Shopping Editor, New York. Shopping Editor. Curated guides and the occasional honest deal.
- [James Beauregard](/editors/james-beauregard) — Opinion Editor, Atlanta. Opinion Editor. Contributing to Pulse Chronicles since 2003.

## Recent reporting
- [The Transit Vote, in Plain English](/article/news-atlanta-transit-vote-summer-2026) — What the July ballot question would actually fund — and what the fine print leaves out. (news, 2026-06-30)
- [The Southeast's Power Grid Is Quietly Becoming an AI Story](/article/ai-power-demand-southeast-grid) — Georgia Power's interconnection queue has grown sixfold in eighteen months. The line is almost entirely data centers, and the math no longer works without nuclear. (tech, 2026-06-29)
- [Private Credit's Quiet Quarter Wasn't Quiet at All](/article/private-credit-defaults-q2) — Headline default rates remain near record lows. Inside the funds, mark-to-model accounting is doing a great deal of work. (business, 2026-06-25)
- [The AI Safety Hearing No One Was Supposed to Watch](/article/senate-ai-safety-hearing-recap) — A Tuesday-morning Senate Commerce subcommittee session previewed the regulatory fight of 2027. (politics, 2026-06-20)
- [The Fed's Summer Patience Has a Shelf Life](/article/fed-summer-outlook) — Two cuts are priced in. Three would require something to break. (business, 2026-06-12)
- [The House Budget Stalemate Enters Its Fourth Week](/article/house-budget-stalemate) — A continuing resolution is the only path that avoids a shutdown, and the Speaker has the votes for neither. (politics, 2026-06-05)
- [Twelve Books to Read This Summer](/article/culture-best-books-summer-2026) — Two new novels, one reissue you missed in 1994, and a history of the American grocery store. (culture, 2026-06-02)
- [Anthropic's Claude 5 Lands With a Quieter Pitch](/article/anthropic-claude-5-launch) — The marketing is enterprise-first. The benchmarks tell a more interesting story. (tech, 2026-05-22)
- [The American Festival Circuit Is Quietly Consolidating](/article/summer-festival-circuit) — Three companies now control more than 70% of the major-market lineups. The artists have noticed. (culture, 2026-05-08)
- [Where the American Newsroom Went](/article/chronicles-disappearing-american-newsroom) — Twenty years after the first wave of layoffs, the survivors of three midsize metro papers tell what was lost and what, in places, is coming back. (chronicles, 2026-04-26)
- [The Port That Quietly Outgrew Los Angeles](/article/chronicles-port-of-savannah) — Savannah is now the third-busiest container port in the United States. The state spent thirty years making sure of it. (chronicles, 2026-03-15)
- [The Last Video Store in Decatur](/article/chronicles-the-last-video-store) — Vision Video has outlasted the format, the chain stores, and three landlords. It will not outlast its lease. (chronicles, 2026-02-08)
- [Sony WH-1000XM6: The Best Noise-Canceller, Refined Past Necessity](/article/review-sony-wh-1000xm6) — Sony's flagship adds two grams of weight and two hundred dollars to a formula that already worked. (reviews, 2026-01-21)
- [Fujifilm X100VII: Same Camera, Same Waitlist](/article/review-fujifilm-x100vii) — The seventh iteration of a cult object asks whether the cult was ever about the camera. (reviews, 2025-12-18)
- [The Capex Cliff That Wasn't](/article/tech-q3-earnings-the-capex-cliff) — Third-quarter results from the hyperscalers came in well above the bear case. The question is what year the bill comes due. (tech, 2025-11-12)
- [Rivian R2 First Drive: The Company's Most Important Car](/article/review-rivian-r2-first-drive) — Smaller, cheaper, and unmistakably a Rivian. The waitlist is, again, the story. (reviews, 2025-11-06)
- [A Weekend in Charleston, Without the Carriage Tour](/article/lifestyle-charleston-weekend) — What to eat, where to stay, and the one thing the brochures do not tell you. (lifestyle, 2025-10-24)
- ["The Thursday Promise" Is the Quiet Film of the Summer](/article/culture-review-the-thursday-promise) — Kelly Reichardt's eleventh feature is her most patient, and her most generous. (culture, 2025-09-18)
- [Six Ways With the August Tomato](/article/lifestyle-summer-tomato-recipes) — When the tomatoes are good, you cook around the tomatoes. A short manifesto, with recipes. (lifestyle, 2025-08-05)
- [NOAA Raises Atlantic Hurricane Outlook for July](/article/news-southeast-hurricane-outlook) — Sea-surface temperatures across the basin are running 1.2°C above the long-term average. (news, 2025-07-31)
- [The Eight Linen Shirts Worth Buying This Summer](/article/shopping-best-summer-linens) — We bought sixteen. We kept eight. Here is the short list, with prices. (shopping, 2025-06-26)
- [Twelve Gifts Under $100 We Would Actually Send](/article/shopping-fathers-day-gifts-under-100) — No novelty mugs, no "world's best" anything. Things adults are pleased to receive. (shopping, 2025-06-09)
- [Mayor Unveils $2.4 Billion Water-Infrastructure Plan](/article/news-atlanta-mayor-water-plan) — The largest single capital project in the city's history will run for a decade. (news, 2025-05-13)
- [Private Equity's Slow Spring](/article/business-private-equity-spring-fundraising) — The first-quarter fundraising numbers are out. The story is the LPs who did not return calls. (business, 2025-04-14)
- [The Case for Patience in a Year That Refuses to Wait](/article/opinion-the-case-for-patience) — Argument, in 2026, has become the enemy of attention. There is a remedy. (opinion, 2025-02-19)
- [The Quiet Consolidation](/article/tech-2025-outlook-the-quiet-consolidation) — The AI map at the start of 2025 looks less like a Cambrian explosion and more like an early oil patch. (tech, 2025-01-09)
- [What the Georgia Runoff Actually Decided](/article/news-georgia-runoff-explained-2024) — Turnout fell off a cliff, but the down-ballot map matters more than the headline. (politics, 2024-12-04)
- [Beginning the Work: Notes on the Digitization](/article/note-from-the-editor-digitization-begins) — Why a forty-six-year-old Atlanta masthead is being brought back online — one scanned page at a time. (news, 2024-10-21)
- [The South I Keep Finding](/article/opinion-the-south-i-keep-finding) — Three weeks on the back roads between Selma and Athens, and what remains. (opinion, 2024-09-02)

## From the Vault (archive, 1978–2023)
- [Atlanta, After Midnight](/article/vault-1979-atlanta-after-midnight) — The Atlanta Pulse, Vol. II, No. 41, October 14, 1979. A reporter's notebook from the eight hours after the latest disappearance.
- [The New South and Its Discontents](/article/vault-1986-the-new-south-and-its-discontents) — Pulse Chronicles, Vol. VIII, No. 4, April 1986. On the eve of CNN's expansion, a city tries to reconcile its mythology with its arithmetic.
- [The Olympics Are Coming. The City Is Not Ready.](/article/vault-1993-the-olympics-are-coming) — Pulse Chronicles, Vol. XV, No. 7, July 1993. Three years out, the costs are rising and the answers are not.
- [The Quiet Contracts: Enron's Southern Utility Plays](/article/vault-1997-the-enron-southern-contracts) — Pulse Chronicles, Vol. XIX, No. 11, November 1997 — finalist, National Magazine Award for Reporting, 1998. A Houston trading desk has spent two years buying long-dated capacity from Southeastern utilities. The utilities are only beginning to notice.
- [On the Loss of Attention](/article/vault-2002-the-essay-on-attention) — Pulse Chronicles, Vol. XXIV, No. 9, September 2002 — finalist, National Magazine Award for Essays, 2003. A short essay on the way reading has begun to feel different, written before there was a word for it.
- [The Coast, One Year Out](/article/vault-2006-katrina-one-year-out) — Pulse Chronicles, Vol. XXVIII, No. 8, August 2006. Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, and the slow vocabulary of return.
- [The Bookstore Question](/article/vault-2011-the-bookstore-question) — Pulse Chronicles, Vol. XXXIII, No. 10, October 2011. On the year Borders closed, what was being lost, and what wasn't.
- [Editor's Letter: The Last Monthly Issue](/article/vault-2019-the-last-print-issue) — Pulse Chronicles, Vol. XLI, No. 3, March 2019. Richard E. Spoon's final letter to readers, written six months before his death.

## Editorial standards
- [About Pulse Chronicles](/about)
- [Our legacy / Roger E. Spoon](/legacy)
- [Ethics & standards](/ethics)
- [Corrections](/corrections)
- [Full archive](/archive)
- [Masthead](/editors)

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