BREAKING: AJC Issues "Corrections" to UGA Football Story; Fires Reporter

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NASHVILLE - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution issued “corrections” on Wednesday, the outlet said, to a report on UGA football late June that resulted in UGA sending a nine-page demand letter to the outlet.

“We apologize to the university and our readers for the errors,” the AJC said. The outlet said that it “found two elements of the story that did not meet the news organization’s journalistic standards.”

The outlet also annouced that Alan Judd, who had the byline on the story on June 27, had been terminated “for violating the organization’s journalistic standards.”

The AJC added that it “found no instances of fabrications in the story, as the university’s letter had alleged.”

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The outlet said it “could not substantiate one of the article’s key assertions about Head Coach Kirby Smart’s tenure: that 11 players remained with the team after women reported violent encounters.”

Last week the University of Georgia demanded that the Atlanta Journal-Constitution retract an article written late last month that suggests that UGA football “rallies when players accused of abusing women.”

UGA’s letter, which was sent July 11, was obtained by Dawg Post through a Freedom of Information request. 

“We demand the AJC’s prompt, clear and conspicuous retraction of the article,” UGA general counsel Michael M. Raeber wrote last week. 

“I am a firm believer that our program is a good program, and we have good players in it,” Kirby said last Tuesday. “Roughly ten days ago an article came out that was inaccurate. I was actually stunned by the article. We wanted to gather the information so that we could make a sound response, which is what you are seeing today. It is very important that we respond to these very serious allegations the right way - not the fastest way.”

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“After receiving the university’s letter, we assigned our team of editors and lawyers to carefully review each claim in the nine-page document we received, along with some additional source material that supported the original story,” the AJC’s editor-in-chief Leroy Chapman said. “We identified errors that fell short of our standards, and we corrected them.”