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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which has been publishing since 1868, will stop publishing a print newspaper at the end of this year, making it one of the largest daily newspapers yet to completely abandon print. Ending the print newspapers is expected to result in the termination of about 30 full- and part-time employees involved in designing and distributing the newspaper. The AJC, owned by Cox Enterprises, will continue to offer an e-paper laid out like print as part of its digital offerings. Cox is instating a $150 million effort to boost the AJC, looking toward a digital future. The company told the New York Times that it currently has 115,000 paid subscribers, of whom 75,000 are digital-only. AJC.com says that paper’s circulation peaked at more than 600,000 “about two decades ago.” “The fact is, printing newspapers and putting them in trucks and driving them around and delivering them on people’s front stoops has not been the most effective way to distribute the news in a very long time,” AJC president and publisher Andrew Morse told the Times’s Katie Robertson.
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Herring Networks, the owner of One America News Network and A Wealth of Entertainment (a reality-based channel that caters to wealthy viewers), has fast-tracked the debut of both on YouTube TV. The channels, which were scheduled to launch on the platform in November, became available on Aug. 29, giving YouTube TV viewers access to such programming as “The Matt Gaetz Show” and “Selling Mega Mansions.” The agreement with Herring was announced while YouTube TV was reaching a distribution deal with Fox Corporation to continue carrying such channels as Fox News, Fox Business Network and Fox Sports 1 (FS1). OAN, along with Newsmax (which has been on the platform since October), provide the right-leaning content that was said to be a priority for Fox.
Underscore Media, a new creator-led media venture dedicated to New York sports, is built around three established New York sports personalities, Sal Licata, Jimmy Traina, and John Jastremski.
McClatchy, which owns 29 daily papers across 14 states (including The Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee and Kansas City Star), launches a wave of layoffs that extends to at least 13 of those papers... The Toledo Blade, which was founded in 1835, is set to shut down on Dec. 31, unless owner Block Communications manages to find a buyer for it... A bill awaiting approval by California governor Gavin Newsom would give local newsrooms a boost. 
Fox News Media issued a pretty sparse release to announce the departure of one of its stars. “Effective today, Maria Bartiromo is no longer with FOX News Media,” it reads.
Brunswick Group partner John Simons has joined CNN as senior director of business & media. He held top jobs at Time and the Wall Street Journal.
WNET, the nation’s largest public media company, names Edward O’Keefe its next president and CEO, effective September 21. O’Keefe succeeds Neal Shapiro, who becomes president emeritus and will retire at the end of the year... The Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, which would empower news publishers and other content providers to defend themselves by mandating transparency for all bots crawling their sites, in introduced in the House by Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL) and Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-NC)... Google gets socked by European Union regulators with a $1 billion fine for using the platform’s dominance as a search engine to illegally undercut competition.
