Shawn McIntosh, Public editor
If you are reading this column on a busy Saturday morning before you begin a full day of hauling the kids, mowing the lawn, catching up from a busy week and hopefully having a lot of fun, I’m impressed and appreciative.
One of the things we’ve learned from research is how little time readers have to spend with the newspaper on weekday and Saturday mornings. Some scan through the headlines, reading the stuff they haven’t heard about, and return at a later time to dig in. Others have a standard routine that lasts exactly as long as two cups of coffee. Some tell us, with a little embarrassment, that they don’t always get back to the newspaper after giving Page One a quick perusal and setting it aside.
Our editors had those reading habits in mind when they designed the new daily Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which differs dramatically from the more relaxed pace of AJCSunday. In the daily, editors were trying to supply readers with an efficient report …
