The Birmingham News (AL.com) is a daily newspaper in Birmingham, Alabama, USA covering local news, sports, business, politics and community events.
The newspaper is published seven days a week.
It is one of the best American media outlets, according to Mondo Times members.
The Birmingham News is no longer published in print and was effectively replaced by the digital news service AL.com after February 26, 2023, when the final print edition of The Birmingham News was published. On the same day, operating company Alabama Media Group (a unit of Advance Local Media) also ended print publication of sister papers the Huntsville Times and Mobile Press-Register.
Alabama Media Group now publishes a daily e-edition of the three newspapers called "the Lede," a journalistic term meaning the introducion of a news story written to catch the reader's interest. The Lede is published in three city-specific editions.
The Birmingham News was the largest newspaper in Alabama in circulation and readership, first published in March 1888 as The Evening News. The paper was published daily until October 1, 2012 when it reduced print publication to three days a week (Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays). The Huntsville Times and Mobile Press-Register made the change at the same time.
Circulation estimate: 30,000
The Birmingham News (AL.com) is one of the highest circulation newspapers in the USA.
This newspaper is owned by Advance Local Media LLC.
| Entertainment editor: | Elizabeth Hoekenga |
| Sports editor: | Izzy Gould |
For Birmingham News (AL.com) contact information, see the Alabama news media contacts at EasyMediaList.com.
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-- The police chief and mayor of the little town of Brookside, located north of Birmingham, are making the town big money (up 640% in 2 years) by ticketing drivers who contend many of the misdemeanors are fabricated and false. Other than fines, the town relies heavily on tax revenue from the local Dollar General store.
John Archibald wrote at the Birmingham News on January 20, 2022:
Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal 'black hole'
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, February 17, 2022
-- In January 2014, Michelle Holmes replaced Staci Brooks as the editor of Birmingham News.
Posted by Mondo Times Editors, Boulder Colorado, October 24, 2014
-- May 25, 2012: The longtime editor of the Birmingham News plans to step down from his post this fall, coinciding with the formation of the Alabama Media Group, a new company which will include the News, the Mobile Press-Register and the Huntsville Times.
Owner Newhouse Newspapers previously announced that the newspapers in the Group would scale back to a publishing schedule of three days per...
-- As was previously reported concerning the New Orleans Times-Picayune, which is also owned by Newhouse Newspapers, the company's Alabama properties plan to reduce printing to three days per week and will also cut some staff.
Sometime this fall, Newhouse's Alabama newspapers -- including the Birmingham News, Mobile Press-Register and Huntsville Times -- will be re-organized as the Alabama Media Group....
-- January 13, 2011 -- This week, The Birmingham News, which describes itself as Alabama's largest newsgathering organization, launched a comprehensive, multi-media marketing campaign aimed not only at increasing audience and revenue, but also at changing the community's perception of the newspaper.
Readers got the first glimpse of this campaign on Sunday with a four-page special section wrapping the newspaper. The section...Also in Alabama...
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