The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is offering Mercer students free access to its website. This is the second year that the paper and the university have partnered together to deliver state and local news to the student body, according to Larry Brumley, Mercer's senior vice president for marketing communications.
Senior Partnership and Business Development Manager for the AJC, Michael Bernstein, said, "We're excited to bring the Mercer University students, faculty and staff all the compelling news, video and podcasts that make the AJC the Substance and Soul of the South."
The link to register an AJC account using Mercer login information can be found here.
Roughly 1,100 students, faculty and staff have taken taken advantage of the offer so far, Brumley added, from the state's "paper of record."
"Given the fact that so many of our Macon campus students come from the Atlanta area, and given the fact we have a major campus in Atlanta with more than 3,000 students, faculty and staff, we felt like this was a service that many in our community would value," Brumley wrote in an email.
The paper, which on Thursday announced that it would cease printing physical copies at year's end, has a growing digital footprint, including a daily podcast from its politics team. The AJC covers news from across the state, from Georgia politics to high school football. Much of its coverage centers on metro Atlanta, but the paper has bureaus across the state and in Washington, D.C. Since its inception, the paper has won a dozen Pulitzer prizes for its reporting.
Mercer's Reg Murphy Center for Collaborative Journalism is named after a former editor of the AJC. Murphy served on the Mercer Board of Trustees for five terms, according to The Den.
Gabriel Kopp '26 is double majoring in Journalism and Law and Public Policy at Mercer University. He has written for The Cluster since he started at Mercer, and currently works as Editor-in-Chief. When he isn't working on a Washington Post crossword, he enjoys going for runs around Macon and reading The New York Times or the AJC while sipping coffee.
