Last Updated: November 29, 1996
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The AOC Olympic team began with three: an editor and two reporters in 1991. By 1992, weíd added a sports editor, two sports writers and an additional news reporter. By 1994, we had grown to 13 full-time staffers devoted to the Olympics. By 1995, we still had the group of 13, which were now complemented by 38 who regularly contributed to pre-Olympic coverage.
For the Games, we swelled to 320 journalists working full time on the Olympics over a one-month period.
That included: 9 senior editors, 22 assigning/line editors, 40 news reporters, 37 features writers, 58 sports writers, 11 photo editors, 25 photographers, 13 designers, 7 graphic artists, 2 copy desk chiefs, and 31 copy editors.
These folks were responsible for publishing our Atlanta Games sections ó four sections averaging 48 pages and 170 columns of newshole. The largest edition was 58 pages, with 193 columns. We published 30 editions of Atlanta Games.
Additionally, we published 21 editions of Atlanta Extra, a separate newspaper that sold only on the streets. Extra hit the streets in mid-morning and was updated in the afternoon. It was a combination of Olympics and news from around the world, nation and state.
Tucked inside Extra was a daily tabloid photo album called Click.
We also produced a six-page paginated section sent on deadline each night to our sister Cox newspapers.
(Part of the need for so many staffers was our philosophy that folks wouldnít
work overtime and that they would get days off. We were in this for the long
haul, 30 days, and we wanted, insisted, that our employees get to enjoy the
Games with family and friends.) 
