List of newspapers in Alabama

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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[2] Birmingham
Alabama Times Birmingham
Alexander City Outlook Alexander City 1892 Bi-Weekly Tallapoosa Publishers
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
Birmingham Times Birmingham Daily
Brewton Daily
Call News Citronelle 1897 Weekly Willie T. Gray / Gray & Gray Inc. Voted #1 Weekly Newspaper in Alabama by the Alabama Press Association
Cherokee County Herald Centre Weekly
Clanton Weekly
The Citizen of East Alabama Phenix City 1957 Weekly R.M. Greene Largest weekly newspaper in Alabama
Clanton Daily
Clark County Democrat Grove Hill 1856 Weekly Jim Cox
Heflin Weekly
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.
Daily Home Talladega Daily
Daily Mountain Eagle Jasper Daily
Scottsboro Daily
Daleville Sun-Courier Daleville 1897 Weekly Talllapoosa Publishers Dadeville Record?
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 Weekly
Enterprise Daily
Eufaula Weekly
Fairhope Weekly
Foley Weekly
Russellville Weekly
Gadsden Times Gadsden Daily GateHouse Media[6]
Greenville Weekly
Huntsville Times Huntsville 1910[3] Tri-Weekly Alabama Media Group / Advance Publications
Robertsdale Weekly
Gulf Shores Weekly
Jacksonville Weekly
Lagniappe Mobile Weekly
Lamar Democrat[2] Vernon 1896[3]
Birmingham Weekly Statewide, based in Birmingham
Fort Deposit Weekly
Luverne Weekly
Millbrook Weekly
[2] Mobile Weekly
Montgomery Advertiser[7] Montgomery[2] 1829[3] Daily Gannett Company[8]
[2] Montgomery Weekly
News Courier Athens Daily Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.[4]
North Jefferson News Gardendale Weekly Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.[4]
Northport Weekly
Opelika-Auburn News Opelika Daily Berkshire Hathaway Inc.[5]
Opelika Weekly
Pickens County Herald Carrollton Weekly
Piedmont Weekly
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]
Pell City Weekly
Sand Mountain Reporter Albertville Daily
Selma Weekly Cindy Fisher
Selma Times-Journal Selma Daily
Columbiana Weekly
South Alabamian Jackson Weekly Jim Cox
Southeast Sun Enterprise Weekly
Southern Star Ozark Daily
York Weekly
Livingston Weekly
Semmes Daily Daily online, weekly broadsheet
Thomasville Times Thomasville Weekly Jim Cox
Times-Journal Fort Payne Daily
Times-Record Fayette Weekly
TimesDaily Florence Daily
Troy Daily
Tuscaloosa News Tuscaloosa Daily GateHouse Media[6]
Lanett Daily
Washington County News Chatom Weekly Willie T. Gray / Gray & Gray Inc.
Western Star Bessemer Weekly

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 -
  • The Crimson – Samford 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, Montgomery began 1869 Bought by Gannett; see Montgomery Advertiser
Alabama Republican Huntsville 1816[10]
Alabama Time-Piece Aldrich 1895 1902[11]
American Star[12] Sheffield
Baptist Leader[12] Birmingham
Birmingham Iron Age Birmingham 1874[13]
Birmingham Post-Herald Birmingham Ceased in 2005
Cahawba Press and Alabama Intelligencer 1819[10]
Halcyon St. Stephens 1814[10]
Hoover Gazette Hoover

2006

Huntsville News Huntsville 1964 Ceased in 1996[14]
Meteor Tuscaloosa
Mobile Centinel Fort Stoddert 1811[10]
Mobile Gazette 1813[10]
Pike County News[12]
Republican Montgomery 1821[10]
Republican Tuscaloosa 1819[10]
Southern Courier Montgomery 1964
Times-Plain Dealer[12] Birmingham
Weekly Post Rainsville

See also[]

U.S. newspapers

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Federal Writers' Project 1941.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Alabama Newspapers". Birmingham: Alabama Press Association. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Encyclopedia of Alabama". Alabama Humanities Foundation. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  4. ^ a b c Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc., Locations: Alabama, Montgomery, AL, retrieved March 27, 2017
  5. ^ a b Berkshire Hathaway Inc., "Daily Newspapers: Alabama" (PDF), 2016 Annual Report, Omaha, Nebraska
  6. ^ a b GateHouse Media, LLC, Our Markets: Alabama, Pittsford, New York, retrieved March 27, 2017
  7. ^ a b "Southern Press". The South in the Building of the Nation. 7. Richmond, VA: Southern Historical Publication Society. 1909. pp. 402–436. Date of establishment of leading Southern newspapers
  8. ^ Gannett Co., Inc., Our Brands: Alabama, McLean, Virginia, retrieved March 27, 2017
  9. ^ "Alabama Courier (Claiborne, A.T. [Alabama Territory]) 1819-182?". Llibrary of Congress. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "About The Alabama time-piece. (Aldrich, Ala.) 1895-19?? « Chronicling America « Library of Congress". Chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
  12. ^ a b c d Frederick German Detweiler (1922). The Negro Press in the United States. University of Chicago Press.
  13. ^ "Browse Collections". Digital Collections. Birmingham Public Library. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  14. ^ "Goodbye to the Huntsville News", Congressional Record, Washington DC, March 6, 1996
  • 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, Nashville: Haley & Florida, OCLC 219597043
  • "Alabama". American Newspaper Directory. New York: George P. Rowell. 1900.
  • "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+.
  • Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Newspapers and Radio", Alabama; a Guide to the Deep South, American Guide Series, New York: Hastings House, pp. 110–115 – via HathiTrust
  • 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. 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[]

Images[]

  • Mobile Centinel, 1811


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