List of newspapers in Alabama
This is a list of newspapers in Alabama, United States. The first title was produced in 1811, and "by 1850, there were 82 newspapers in Alabama, of which nine were dailies."[1]
Daily and nondaily newspapers (currently published)
The following are daily, weekly, semi-weekly, etc., newspapers published in Alabama:
| Name | Locale | Year Est. | Frequency | Publisher/parent company | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advertiser-Gleam | Guntersville | Weekly | |||
| Alabama Baptist[2] | Birmingham | 1843[3] | Weekly | ||
| Alabama Messenger | Birmingham | (Website)[2] | |||
| Alabama Times | Birmingham | ||||
| Alexander City Outlook | Alexander City | 1892 | Bi-Weekly | Tallapoosa Publishers | |
| Andalusia Star News | Andalusia | Daily | |||
| Anniston Star | Anniston | 1912[3] | Daily | ||
| Atmore Advance | Atmore | Daily | |||
| Auburn Villager | Auburn | 2006 | Weekly | ||
| Baldwin Times | Bay Minette | Weekly | |||
| Birmingham Business Journal[2] | Birmingham | Weekly | |||
| Birmingham News[2] | Birmingham | 1888[3] | Tri-Weekly | Alabama Media Group / Advance Publications | Alabama Media Group is shifting to an all-digital format on February 27, 2023 and will no longer publish legal ads, public notices, bid notices, completion notices, classified ads, etc.. |
| Birmingham Times | Birmingham | Daily | |||
| Brewton Standard | Brewton | Daily | |||
| Call News | Citronelle | 1897 | Weekly | Willie T. Gray / Gray & Gray Inc. | |
| Cherokee County Herald | Centre | Weekly | |||
| Chilton County News | Clanton | Weekly | |||
| The Citizen of East Alabama | Phenix City | 1957 | Weekly | R.M. Greene | |
| Clanton Advertiser | Clanton | Daily | |||
| Clark County Democrat | Grove Hill | 1856 | Weekly | Jim Cox | |
| Cleburne News | Heflin | Weekly | |||
| Courier Journal | Florence | Weekly | |||
| Cullman Times | Cullman | Daily | Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.[4] | ||
| Cullman Tribune | Cullman | 1874 | Daily | Oldest continuously published weekly newspaper in Alabama. Cullman County's oldest business. {Website} | |
| Daily Home | Talladega | Daily | |||
| Daily Mountain Eagle | Jasper | Daily | |||
| Daily Sentinel | Scottsboro | Daily | |||
| Daleville Sun-Courier | Daleville | 1897 | Weekly | Talllapoosa Publishers | |
| Daphne-Spanish Fort Bulletin | Daphne | Weekly | |||
| Decatur Daily | Decatur | Daily | |||
| Dekalb Advertiser | Fort Payne | Weekly | |||
| Democrat-Reporter | Linden | 1911 | Weekly | Goodloe Sutton | |
| Demopolis Times | Demopolis | Daily | |||
| Dothan Eagle | Dothan | Daily | Berkshire Hathaway Inc.[5] | ||
| Elberta-Lillian Ledger | Elberta | Weekly | |||
| Enterprise Ledger | Enterprise | Daily | |||
| Eufaula Tribune | Eufaula | Weekly | |||
| Fairhope Courier | Fairhope | Weekly | |||
| Foley Onlooker | Foley | Weekly | |||
| Franklin County Times | Russellville | Weekly | |||
| Gadsden Times | Gadsden | Daily | GateHouse Media[6] | ||
| Greenville Advocate | Greenville | Weekly | |||
| Huntsville Times | Huntsville | 1910[3] | Tri-Weekly | Alabama Media Group / Advance Publications | Alabama Media Group is shifting to an all-digital format on February 27, 2023 and will no longer publish legal ads, public notices, bid notices, completion notices, classified ads, etc.. |
| Independent | Robertsdale | Weekly | |||
| Islander | Gulf Shores | Weekly | |||
| Jacksonville News | Jacksonville | Weekly | |||
| Lagniappe | Mobile | Weekly | |||
| Lamar Democrat[2] | Vernon | 1896[3] | |||
| Latino News | Birmingham | Weekly | Statewide, based in Birmingham | ||
| Lowndes Signal | Fort Deposit | Weekly | |||
| Luverne Journal | Luverne | Weekly | |||
| Millbrook Independent | Millbrook | Weekly | |||
| Mobile Beacon & Alabama Citizen[2] | Mobile | Weekly | |||
| Monroe Journal | Monroeville | 1866 | Weekly | ||
| Montgomery Advertiser[7] | Montgomery[2] | 1829[3] | Daily | Gannett Company[8] | |
| Montgomery Independent[2] | Montgomery | Weekly | |||
| News Courier | Athens | Daily | Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.[4] | ||
| North Jefferson News | Gardendale | Weekly | Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.[4] | ||
| Northport Gazette | Northport | Weekly | |||
| Opelika-Auburn News | Opelika | Daily | Berkshire Hathaway Inc.[5] | ||
| Opelika Observer | Opelika | Weekly | |||
| Pickens County Herald | Carrollton | Weekly | |||
| Piedmont Journal | Piedmont | Weekly | |||
| Post | Centre | Weekly | |||
| Press-Register[2] | Mobile | 1821[7] | Tri-Weekly | Alabama Media Group / Advance Publications | Began as Mobile Commercial Register in 1821, became Press-Register in 1932[3] Alabama Media Group is shifting to an all-digital format on February 27, 2023 and will no longer publish legal ads, public notices, bid notices, completion notices, classified ads, etc.. |
| St. Clair Times | Pell City | Weekly | |||
| Sand Mountain Reporter | Albertville | Daily | |||
| Selma Sun | Selma | Weekly | Cindy Fisher | ||
| Selma Times-Journal | Selma | Daily | |||
| Shelby County Reporter | Columbiana | Weekly | |||
| South Alabamian | Jackson | Weekly | Jim Cox | ||
| Southeast Sun | Enterprise | Weekly | |||
| Southern Star | Ozark | Daily | |||
| Sumter Circular | York | Weekly | |||
| Sumter County Record-Journal | Livingston | Weekly | |||
| The Tallassee Tribune | Tallassee | 1919 | Weekly | Boone Newspapers | |
| Talk Of Semmes | Semmes | Weekly | |||
| Thomasville Times | Thomasville | Weekly | Jim Cox | ||
| Times-Journal | Fort Payne | Daily | |||
| Times-Record | Fayette | Weekly | |||
| TimesDaily | Florence | Daily | |||
| Troy Messenger | Troy | Daily | |||
| Trussville Tribune | Trussville | 2005 | Weekly | Scott Buttram / Principle Publishing Group | |
| Tuscaloosa News | Tuscaloosa | Daily | GateHouse Media[6] | ||
| Tuskegee News | Tuskegeea | 1865 | Weekly | ||
| Valley Times-News | Lanett | Daily | |||
| Washington County News | Chatom | Weekly | Willie T. Gray / Gray & Gray Inc. | (Website) | |
| Western Star | Bessemer | Weekly | |||
| Wetumpka Herald | Wetumpka | Weekly | Tallapoosa Publishers, Inc. |
University newspapers
- The Auburn Plainsman – Auburn University
- The Crimson White – University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
- The Kaleidoscope – University of Alabama at Birmingham
- The Vanguard-The University of South Alabama
- The Springhillian - Spring Hill College
- The Chanticleer - Jacksonville State University
- The Crimson – Samford University
- The Tropolitan - Troy University
Defunct
| Title | Locale | Year est. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advertiser | Moulton | 1828[1] | |
| Advocate | Huntsville | 1815 | Ceased in 1893[1] |
| Alabama Courier | Claiborne | 1819 | Published by Tucker & Turner and ceased operations sometime in the 1820s[9] |
| Alabama Journal,[10] Alabama State Journal | Montgomery | began 1869 | Bought by Gannett; see Montgomery Advertiser |
| Alabama Observer | |||
| Alabama Republican | Huntsville | 1816[11] | |
| Alabama Time-Piece | Aldrich | 1895 | 1902[12] |
| American Star[13] | Sheffield | ||
| Baptist Leader[13] | Birmingham | ||
| Birmingham Iron Age | Birmingham | 1874[14] | |
| Birmingham Post-Herald[15] | Birmingham | Ceased in 2005 | |
| Cahawba Press and Alabama Intelligencer | 1819[11] | ||
| Geneva County Reaper | Geneva | 1901 | Ceased in 2024 |
| Daily Rebel[16] | Selma | 1865 | |
| Halcyon | St. Stephens | 1814[11] | |
| Hoover Gazette[17] | Hoover | 2006 | 2007 |
| Huntsville News | Huntsville | 1964 | Ceased in 1996[18] |
| Meteor[19] | Tuscaloosa | 1872 | |
| Mobile Centinel | Fort Stoddert | 1811[11] | |
| Mobile Gazette | 1813[11] | ||
| The Mobile Morning News | Mobile | 1865 | |
| Mobile News Item | Mobile | 1910 | Ceased about 1944 |
| Pike County News[13] | |||
| Republican | Montgomery | 1821[11] | |
| Republican | Tuscaloosa | 1819[11] | |
| Southern Courier | Montgomery | 1964 | |
| Times-Plain Dealer[13] | Birmingham | ||
| Weekly Post | Rainsville |
See also
- Alabama media
- Journalism:
- Category:Journalists from Alabama
- University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences in Tuscaloosa
- Alabama literature
U.S. newspapers
References
- ^ a b c Federal Writers' Project 1941.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Alabama Newspapers". Birmingham: Alabama Press Association. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Encyclopedia of Alabama". Alabama Humanities Foundation. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
- ^ a b c Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc., Locations: Alabama, Montgomery, AL, retrieved March 27, 2017
- ^ a b Berkshire Hathaway Inc., "Daily Newspapers: Alabama" (PDF), 2016 Annual Report, Omaha, Nebraska
- ^ a b GateHouse Media, LLC, Our Markets: Alabama, Pittsford, New York, retrieved March 27, 2017
- ^ a b "Southern Press". The South in the Building of the Nation. Vol. 7. Richmond, VA: Southern Historical Publication Society. 1909. pp. 402–436. hdl:2027/yale.39002004114386.
Date of establishment of leading Southern newspapers
- ^ Gannett Co., Inc., Our Brands: Alabama, McLean, Virginia, retrieved March 27, 2017
- ^ "Alabama Courier (Claiborne, A.T. [Alabama Territory]) 1819-182?". Library of Congress. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
- ^ "About Alabama journal. volume (Montgomery, Ala.) 1940–1993". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g Benjamin Buford Williams (1979). A Literary History of Alabama: the Nineteenth Century. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 978-0-8386-2054-0.
- ^ "About The Alabama time-piece. (Aldrich, Ala.) 1895-19?? « Chronicling America « Library of Congress". Chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. Retrieved June 2, 2014.
- ^ a b c d Frederick German Detweiler (1922). The Negro Press in the United States. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780742642652.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ^ "Browse Collections". Digital Collections. Birmingham Public Library. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
- ^ "Alabama's Birmingham Post-Herald to close today". September 23, 2005.
- ^ "About Chattanooga daily rebel. (Selma, Ala.) 1865-1865". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
- ^ "The Hoover Gazette puts out last issue today". August 16, 2007.
- ^ "Goodbye to the Huntsville News", Congressional Record, Washington DC, March 6, 1996
- ^ "Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama Insane Hospital's newspaper the Meteor". Archived from the original on November 20, 2020. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
- eCirc FAS-FAX Report 2005-03-31. Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Bibliography
- Saffold Berney (1878), "Newspapers in Alabama", Handbook of Alabama, Mobile: Mobile Register print.
- S. N. D. North; United States Department of the Interior (1884). "Catalogue of Periodical Publications: Alabama". History and Present Condition of the Newspaper and Periodical Press of the United States. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. OCLC 1850475. (+ List of titles 50+ years old)
- James T. Haley, ed. (1895), "Newspapers: Alabama", Afro-American Encyclopaedia, Mind and matter, Nashville: Haley & Florida, hdl:2027/inu.30000029292855, OCLC 219597043
- "Alabama". American Newspaper Directory. New York: George P. Rowell. 1900. hdl:2027/umn.31951002273861a.
- "Newspaper Industry". Alabama Hand Book: Agricultural and Industrial Resources and Opportunities. Montgomery: Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries. 1919.
- "Alabama". American Newspaper Annual & Directory. Philadelphia: N. W. Ayer & Son. 1922. pp. 33+. hdl:2027/umn.31951001295695n.
- Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Newspapers and Radio", Alabama; a Guide to the Deep South, American Guide Series, New York: Hastings House, pp. 110–115, hdl:2027/uc1.b4469723 – via HathiTrust
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Rhoda Coleman Ellison (1946). "Newspaper Publishing in Frontier Alabama". Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 23.
- Thomas D. Clark (1948). Southern Country Editor. Bobbs-Merrill. OCLC 525858. (Includes information about weekly rural newspapers in Alabama)
- Rhoda Coleman Ellison. History and Bibliography of Alabama Newspapers in the Nineteenth Century. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1954.
- James Boylan (1963). "Birmingham: newspapers in a crisis". Columbia Journalism Review. 2.
- Daniel Savage Gray (1975). "Frontier Journalism: Newspapers in Antebellum Alabama". Alabama Historical Quarterly. 37.
- Allen W. Jones (1984). "Voices for Improving Rural Life: Alabama's Black Agricultural Press, 1890-1965". Agricultural History. 58 (3): 209–220. JSTOR 3743075.
- King E. Williams Jr. (1997). The Press of Alabama: A History of the Alabama Press Association. Alabama Press Assoc. ISBN 1878561545.
- Lynda Brown; et al. (1998). Alabama History: an Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-28223-2. (Includes information about Alabama newspapers)
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Newspapers of Alabama.
- "Alabama Newspapers". Historical U.S. Newspapers Online. Library Guides. Ohio: Bowling Green State University.
Newspapers that are freely available on the Internet
- "US Newspaper Directory: Alabama". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress.
- "News: Newspapers: Regional: United States: Alabama". DMOZ. AOL. (Directory ceased in 2017)
- Ford Risley. "Civil War Journalism in Alabama". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Alabama Humanities Foundation.
- "Alabama Civil War and Reconstruction Newspapers". Digital Collections. Montgomery: Alabama Department of Archives and History.
- "Alabama Media Group Collection". Digital Collections. Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Photographic negatives taken by newspaper photographers working for the Birmingham News, the Huntsville Times, and Mobile's Press-Register between the 1920s and the early 2000s
- Auburn University Libraries. "Newspapers at Auburn Libraries: Newspaper Sources: Alabama Newspapers". Subject Guides.
- USNPL.com: Alabama Newspapers. US Newspaper List.
- International Coalition on Newspapers. "Newspaper Digitization Projects: United States: Alabama". Chicago: Center for Research Libraries.
- University of Florida. "Alabama". NewspaperCat: Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers. Gainesville.
- "Alabama". N-Net: the Newspaper Network on the World Wide Web. Archived from the original on February 15, 1997.
- "Alabama Newspapers". AJR News Link. American Journalism Review. Archived from the original on February 26, 2000.
- "United States: Alabama". NewsDirectory.com. Toronto: Tucows Inc. Archived from the original on November 20, 2001.
Images
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Mobile Centinel, 1811
