Transparency & Verification
A plain-language account of what Pulse Chronicles is today, what we have proof of, and what is still being rebuilt. Updated as the relaunch progresses.
Last reviewed: June 2026
A revived masthead under new ownership
Pulse Chronicles began in Atlanta in 1978 as a regional press operation founded by Richard E. Spoon. It published as a weekly, then a monthly magazine through the 1980s and 1990s, declined through the 2000s as regional print contracted, and ceased active publication in the 2010s. The title, the print archive, and the operating company were preserved by Peachtree Editorial Holdings after a 2017 acquisition. Following Richard Spoon’s death in 2025, his family and Peachtree transferred ownership of the masthead to the current owners with a single mandate: relaunch it digitally.
What you are reading is that relaunch — a small newsroom building in public, not a continuously operated 48-year-old institution pretending it never went away.
What is verified, what is in progress
We separate three things: facts we can document on request, work we have committed to and are actively doing, and editorial positions that are claims of intent, not proof.
Founder: Richard E. Spoon, Atlanta, 1978
Founding attribution is an editorial claim of the relaunched masthead, not an independent historical record. We acknowledge that public searches surface other individuals with similar names; we do not claim those are the same person. Founding documents and corporate filings from the relaunch are available on request to standards@pulsechronicles.com.
Print archive (~1,800 pieces, 1978–2023)
The full digitization is a multi-year project. A curated first wave is published in the Vault. Later waves, including the photo archive and full-text search, are scheduled through 2027. The number 1,800 is our internal count of catalogued source pieces, not the count currently online.
Current ownership: new owners (2025– )
The relaunch is operated by the current ownership group that acquired the title in 2025. Corporate registration details are available on request for journalists, researchers, and partners.
Newsroom: ten editors across four bureaus
The masthead represents the editorial structure the relaunch is building toward. Some roles are filled, some are being onboarded, and some bios reflect founding editorial voices rather than long-tenured staff. Where a piece is published under an editor’s byline, that editor stands behind the reporting; where coverage is contributed, commissioned, or syndicated, it will be labelled as such.
Use of AI in the newsroom
We use AI tools for research, transcription, summarization, archive OCR, and drafting assistance. Where AI-assisted drafting materially shaped a piece, we disclose it on the piece. We do not publish fabricated quotes, fabricated sources, or AI-generated images represented as photography. Our full policy is on the editorial standards page.
Awards, nominations, circulation history
Historical circulation figures and any award references on this site describe the print-era operation as recounted by the relaunch team. They are not independently audited and should be read as editorial history, not as ABC-verified circulation data or formally adjudicated awards records. Documentation we hold is available to journalists on request.
Independent checks we welcome
- Email standards@pulsechronicles.com for corporate registration, ownership, and source documents.
- Email corrections@pulsechronicles.com to flag any factual error; logged corrections appear on the corrections page.
- Cross-check published pieces against the primary sources we link in-text.
- Inspect our public feeds: sitemap, RSS, articles.json, llms.txt.
- Backdate stories or fabricate “originally published in 1992” pieces.
- Publish AI-generated text or imagery as the work of a named editor without disclosure.
- Invent sources, quotes, awards, circulation figures, or independent verifications.
- Silently revise the digitized print archive. Errors get a dated note, not a rewrite.