The Atlanta Tribune is a monthly news magazine published in Atlanta in the U.S. state of Georgia, focused on the African American business community of that city."Atlanta Tribune." The American Directory of Writer's Guidelines, 5th edition, compiled by Stephen Blake Mettee, Michelle Doland, and Doris Hall, Quill Driver Books/Word Dancer Press, Inc., 2006, pp. 53–55.
History Kermit Thomas established the Tribune in 1986, and soon turned it over to George and Patricia Lottier, who built it up, and whose relatives own the Baltimore Afro-American."Patricia Ann Lottier." The HistoryMakers. The paper focuses on a readership of affluent African Americans.Poole, Sheila M. "Atlanta Tribune finds its niche among blacks." The Atlanta Constitution, 12 November 1992, p. 87.Poe, Janita. "Magazine serves affluent niche." The Atlanta Constitution, 17 September 2000, p. 76. The paper is now owned by Real Times Media, publisher of the Michigan Chronicle, the Chicago Defender, and the Atlanta Daily World."Atlanta Tribune Magazine." Mondo Times.
The Rev. Darryl Gray, an alumnus of the Tribune, started the Black-oriented Provincial Monitor in Nova Scotia in 1990. In 2001 Frederick D. Robinson was appointed editor."Atlanta Tribune picks editor for magazine." The Atlanta Constitution, 10 October 2001, p. 104. The Tribune published weekly as of 2004.
The Tribune celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2016.Floyd, Safon. "The Atlanta Tribune celebrates 30 years of publishing." Black Enterprise, 17 May 2016. A 2020 Wall Street Journal article noted that the Tribune "celebrated Coke in 2016 with a photo of 17 of the company's Black women executives," but that fewer than half of those executives remained four years later.
A previous publication with the same name was the subject of an investigation for improper fundraising in 1981; however, the papers do not appear to be connected.Epstein, Gail. "Not Raising Funds, Says Publisher." The Atlanta Constitution, 19 June 1981, p. 53.
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