Talk:The Great Speckled Bird (newspaper)

De-stubbifying the article
There are several good citations in this article now that could be mined for more information to include in the article. Kenirwin/ (talk) 14:52, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Circulation figure
22,000: The article and infobox currently list the circulation of the paper as 22,000 in 1970, but no source for that info.

Other sources
20,000: The article in the Atlanta Progressive says that "At its peak, The Bird produced 20,000 copies"

23,000: The New Georgia Encyclopedia (note: tertiary source not appropriate for citing in Wikipedia) says "By the summer of 1970 the Great Speckled Bird had become the largest paid weekly newspaper in Georgia, with a circulation of 23,000 copies." (http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/great-speckled-bird)

27,000: According to the Atlanta Magazine article already cited in the text, the circulation was 27,000 at its peak, but they don't say when that was. -Kenirwin/ (talk) 17:49, 9 April 2018 (UTC)