| Atlanta Times | |
| Type: | Daily newspaper |
| Format: | Broadsheet |
| Publisher: | James C. Davis |
| President: | Arthur P. Jackson |
| Generalmanager: | Irwin M. Orner |
| Editor: | Luke Greene |
| Assoceditor: | Frank Veale |
| Maneditor: | Luther Thigpen |
| Sportseditor: | George Short |
| Language: | English |
| Publishing Country: | United States |
| Oclc: | 9614138 |
The Atlanta Times was a short-lived conservative daily newspaper published in the early 1960s in Atlanta, Georgia. The first major effort at a new paper in the Atlanta area since 1903, it was launched in mid-1964 by former U.S. congressman James C. Davis to advance the cause of racial segregation in the United States and to combat "radicalism", and had ceased publication by September 1965.[1] Davis had spent three years raising money for the venture, and within months of its establishment, the Times faced problems with both finances and management.[2] The paper aspired to a circulation of about 125,000 but achieved only 75,000, and reportedly lost 3 million. It failed to attract major department stores as advertisers, and readers remained more loyal to established papers like the Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Constitution than anticipated. A failed effort by the board of the Times to expand the paper state-wide ultimately caused its ruin.
The first issue of the Atlanta Times was 120 pages and was published on June 12, 1964.[2] Luke Greene was its editor.[3] The Times purchased a used printing press from the New York World-Telegram.
Pauline Phillips attended the paper's opening ceremony, where she signed freshly-printed issues.[4] [5]