Reference Desk
Citable, dated pieces on Atlanta history, media, and public data. Written for researchers, editors, and citation. Every piece lists its sources and offers copy-paste citation formats.
The Atlanta alt-weekly, 1975–2005: A short institutional history
How Creative Loafing, The Atlanta Voice, and a rotating cast of smaller papers built and then largely dismantled the city's alt-weekly ecosystem across three decades.
AI-assisted newsrooms: the disclosure frameworks in use as of 2026
A comparison of the four published disclosure frameworks major English-language newsrooms have adopted for AI-assisted work, and what each one actually requires.
US daily newspaper closures, 2005–2024: a compiled dataset
A compilation of US daily newspaper closures across two decades, drawn from the Northwestern University Local News Initiative and the UNC Hussman School news deserts project. Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0.
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