The AJC reports on itself:

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said Wednesday it will cut its full-time news staff by about 90 people, or nearly 30 percent, to lower costs as it tries to regain profitability amid a severe revenue slump.
The company also announced it will eliminate distribution to seven more outlying counties, reducing its circulation area to 20 metro Atlanta counties, effective April 26. The cutback will pare daily and Sunday circulation by 2 percent.
The AJC’s news staff will drop to about 230 full-time positions, down from about 323 currently. Staff members with five or more years with the company will be offered voluntary buyouts, with layoffs to follow if they don’t achieve the targeted cuts, the company said.

You have to wonder how many other papers can follow this path. Cutting seven counties but losing only 2 percent of the circulation sounds pretty good to me. How important is it, for example, that I can buy the New York Post 100 miles outside of NYC in Pennsylvania? The newspaper business might be a little stronger if papers stopped trying to put each other out of business in markets that aren’t their own. New York Times, this means you.