Transparency & Verification
Ownership, standards, and sourcing at Pulse Chronicles — the record that sits behind the byline.
Last reviewed: June 2026
A 1978 Atlanta masthead, publishing daily
Pulse Chronicles was founded in Atlanta on August 14, 1978 by Richard E. Spoon. It published as a weekly broadsheet, then as a national long-form monthly through the 1980s and 1990s, contracted with the regional print advertising market through the 2000s, and moved to quarterly print in 2019. The masthead, trademarks, and the full editorial archive were preserved by Peachtree Editorial Holdings LLC through the hibernation period. Following Richard Spoon’s death in April 2025, the title transferred to the current ownership group with a mandate to relaunch it as a digital daily and bring the print vault online.
Corporate registration, ownership records, and archival source documents are held on file at our Atlanta office and available to journalists, researchers, and partners on written request.
Where to find us on the record
Independent records for Pulse Chronicles — the company, the masthead, and the 2025 acquisition — are maintained on the following open databases:
- Crunchbase. crunchbase.com/organization/pulse-chronicles — company profile, ownership, and acquisition history.
- Wikidata. wikidata.org — Pulse Chronicles — structured entity data, founder, and publication history.
- Georgia Secretary of State. Peachtree Editorial Holdings LLC — corporate filing on record with the Corporations Division.
Ownership, masthead, and archive
Founder: Richard E. Spoon (1941–2025)
Founding editor and publisher, Atlanta, August 14, 1978. Formerly of The Atlanta Constitution city desk. Held the editor’s chair across three tenures totalling twenty-eight years. Full biography on the Spoon legacy page.
Current ownership: Peachtree Editorial Holdings LLC
Georgia-registered holding company; owner of the masthead, trademarks, and archive since May 2025. Corporate filing on record with the Georgia Secretary of State, Corporations Division. Cross-listed on Crunchbase and Wikidata (see above).
Print archive (1978–2023)
Approximately 1,800 catalogued source pieces held at the Castleberry Hill archive in Atlanta. The vault is being released online in curated waves through 2027; wave one is live in the Vault. The physical archive remains accessible to accredited researchers by appointment.
Newsroom: ten editors, four bureaus
Atlanta (HQ), Washington D.C., New York, and a remote Gulf Coast desk. The masthead is listed with bylines, portraits, and section beats on the editors page. Every published piece carries a named editor of record.
Print-era circulation and awards
Historical circulation figures and National Magazine Award nominations described on this site refer to the print-era operation and are documented from the paper’s internal editorial records, retained through the acquisition. Source documentation is available to journalists and researchers on request.
5.0 stars from 302+ subscribers
“The relaunch reads like the old print monthly I grew up reading — same voice, same rigor, now on a phone.”
“Best AI product coverage on the web right now. LLM Recommend is the section I open first every morning.”
“Long-form journalism that respects your time. I renewed for two years without thinking twice.”
Aggregate rating pulled from verified Pulse Chronicles subscribers on Google. Updated monthly.
What our readers rank highest
Each quarter, our 300+ paying subscribers vote on the reporting they want us to keep doing. The current top-ranked desks:
- LLM Recommend — flagship AI product reviews. 96% subscriber approval.
- The Float — weekly markets column. 91% subscriber approval.
- Atlanta desk — city hall & regional reporting. 88% subscriber approval.
- The Vault — digitized print archive. 84% subscriber approval.
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- Email standards@pulsechronicles.com for corporate registration and archival source documents.
- Email corrections@pulsechronicles.com to flag factual errors; logged corrections appear on the corrections page.
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