{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Atlanta Tribune | logo = Atlanta Tribune Logo.png | logo_size = 225px | category = | frequency = Monthly | format = News magazine | publisher = Real Times Media | founder = Kermit Thomas | founded = 1986 | website = {{URL|atlantatribune.com}} }}
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.<ref>"[https://books.google.com/books?id=0AaVAm-OzsgC&dq=%22atlanta+tribune%22&pg=PA54 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.</ref>
== 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''.<ref>"[https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/patricia-ann-lottier-41 Patricia Ann Lottier]." ''The HistoryMakers''.</ref> The paper focuses on a readership of affluent African Americans.<ref>Poole, Sheila M. "[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87047532/atlanta-tribune-niche/ Atlanta Tribune finds its niche among blacks]." ''The Atlanta Constitution'', 12 November 1992, p. 87.</ref><ref>Poe, Janita. "[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87047435/atlanta-tribune-market/ Magazine serves affluent niche]." ''The Atlanta Constitution'', 17 September 2000, p. 76.</ref> The paper is now owned by Real Times Media, publisher of the ''Michigan Chronicle'', the ''Chicago Defender'', and the ''Atlanta Daily World''.<ref>"[https://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/us/10/567/1614 Atlanta Tribune Magazine]." ''Mondo Times''.</ref>
The Rev. Darryl Gray, an alumnus of the ''Tribune'', started the Black-oriented ''Provincial Monitor'' in Nova Scotia in 1990.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 22, 1990 |title=Black-Oriented Paper Launched in Nova Scotia |language=English |work=Editor & Publisher |publisher=Duncan McIntosh |url=http://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1990-12-22_123_51/page/38/mode/2up |access-date=2021-02-23}}</ref> In 2001 Frederick D. Robinson was appointed editor.<ref>"[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87047736/atlanta-tribune-magazine-editor/ Atlanta Tribune picks editor for magazine]." ''The Atlanta Constitution'', 10 October 2001, p. 104.</ref> The ''Tribune'' published weekly as of 2004.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fitzgerald |first=Mark |date=November 2004 |title=Black Is Back |language=English |work=Editor & Publisher |publisher=Duncan McIntosh |url=http://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_2004-11_137_11/page/42/mode/2up |access-date=2021-02-23}}</ref>
The ''Tribune'' celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2016.<ref>Floyd, Safon. "[https://www.blackenterprise.com/atlanta-tribune-celebrates-30-years-publishing/ The Atlanta Tribune celebrates 30 years of publishing]." ''Black Enterprise'', 17 May 2016.</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Coke's Elusive Goal: Boosting Its Black Employees—Two decades after historic lawsuit, its diversity efforts have lost ground |last1=Maloney |first1=Jennifer |last2=Weber |first2=Lauren |work=The Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition |date=December 17, 2020 |page=A1 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/coke-resets-goal-of-boosting-black-employees-after-20-year-effort-loses-ground-11608139999 }}</ref>
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.<ref>Epstein, Gail. "[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87047876/atlanta-tribune-investigationn/ Not Raising Funds, Says Publisher]." ''The Atlanta Constitution'', 19 June 1981, p. 53.</ref>
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