The clear majority of national stories were placed in trades or technical journals. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has become a huge outlet for Georgia Tech with 278 stories in 1999, and the Atlanta Tech section has been our most successful venue. Ernest Holsendolph covers Tech more than any other reporter in the world. The Atlanta Business Chronicle and the technology bureaus at CNN also have increased their coverage of us with 164 stories last year between them. We have fewer stories on local TV this year than last, and that's probably a good thing.
Local news is almost exclusively about tragedies and scandals.
The two main exceptions to that are health news and expert opinion on breaking stories, such as lunar eclipses, hurricanes, earthquakes and military unrest. The most successful stories for '99 were a mix of the familiar and the new. Sundaresan Jayaraman's research on the Smart T-shirt was again the leading story for the year with 159 placements, more than double any other story. Second on the list is a story from the Georgia Tech Sports Medicine and Performance Newsletter on preventing ski injuries with 79 placements. In all, the top stories of '99 were a good mix of research, community involvement, trend-setting and prestige.