Atlanta Journal-Constitution lays off news graphics department

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which announced late last month that it would lay off 90 members of its news staff, will now be eliminating the rest of its news graphics department as well, according to Charles Apple of VisualEditors.com.

There were only four staffers remaining in the News Art department of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, as of Thursday. We seem to recall there were a total 15 or 16 in that department when we last counted, back in 2002.

Now there are none. However, it seems that the redesign the paper has been working on will still go forward as planned.

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