List of newspapers in Alabama explained

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."

Daily and nondaily newspapers (currently published)

The following are daily, weekly, semi-weekly, etc., newspapers published in Alabama:

NameLocaleYear Est.FrequencyPublisher/parent companyNotes
Advertiser-GleamGuntersvilleWeekly
Alabama BaptistBirmingham1843Weekly
Alabama MessengerBirmingham(Website)
Alabama TimesBirmingham
Alexander City OutlookAlexander City1892Bi-WeeklyTallapoosa Publishers
Andalusia Star NewsAndalusiaDaily
Anniston StarAnniston1912[1] Daily
Atmore AdvanceAtmoreDaily
Auburn VillagerAuburn2006Weekly
Baldwin TimesBay MinetteWeekly
Birmingham Business JournalBirminghamWeekly
Birmingham NewsBirmingham1888Tri-WeeklyAlabama Media Group / Advance PublicationsAlabama 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 TimesBirminghamDaily
Brewton StandardBrewtonDaily
Call NewsCitronelle1897WeeklyWillie T. Gray / Gray & Gray Inc.Voted #1 Weekly Newspaper in Alabama by the Alabama Press Association. (Website)
Cherokee County HeraldCentreWeekly
Chilton County NewsClantonWeekly
The Citizen of East AlabamaPhenix City1957WeeklyR.M. GreeneLargest weekly newspaper in Alabama
Clanton AdvertiserClantonDaily
Clark County DemocratGrove Hill1856WeeklyJim Cox
Cleburne NewsHeflinWeekly
Courier JournalFlorenceWeekly
Cullman TimesCullmanDailyCommunity Newspaper Holdings, Inc.
Cullman TribuneCullman1874DailyOldest continuously published weekly newspaper in Alabama. Cullman County's oldest business.
Daily HomeTalladegaDaily
Daily Mountain EagleJasperDaily
Daily SentinelScottsboroDaily
Daleville Sun-CourierDaleville1897WeeklyTalllapoosa PublishersDadeville Record?
Daphne-Spanish Fort BulletinDaphneWeekly
Decatur DailyDecaturDaily
Dekalb AdvertiserFort PayneWeekly
Democrat-ReporterLinden1911WeeklyGoodloe Sutton
Demopolis TimesDemopolisDaily
Dothan EagleDothanDailyBerkshire Hathaway Inc.
Elberta-Lillian LedgerElbertaWeekly
Enterprise LedgerEnterpriseDaily
Eufaula TribuneEufaulaWeekly
Fairhope CourierFairhopeWeekly
Foley OnlookerFoleyWeekly
Franklin County TimesRussellvilleWeekly
Gadsden TimesGadsdenDailyGateHouse Media
Greenville AdvocateGreenvilleWeekly
Huntsville TimesHuntsville1910Tri-WeeklyAlabama Media Group / Advance PublicationsAlabama 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..
IndependentRobertsdaleWeekly
IslanderGulf ShoresWeekly
Jacksonville NewsJacksonvilleWeekly
LagniappeMobileWeekly
Lamar Democrat[2] Vernon1896
Latino NewsBirminghamWeeklyStatewide, based in Birmingham
Lowndes SignalFort DepositWeekly
Luverne JournalLuverneWeekly
Millbrook IndependentMillbrookWeekly
Mobile Beacon & Alabama CitizenMobileWeekly
Monroe JournalMonroeville1866Weekly
Montgomery AdvertiserMontgomery1829DailyGannett Company
Montgomery IndependentMontgomeryWeekly
News CourierAthensDailyCommunity Newspaper Holdings, Inc.
North Jefferson NewsGardendaleWeeklyCommunity Newspaper Holdings, Inc.
Northport GazetteNorthportWeekly
Opelika-Auburn NewsOpelikaDailyBerkshire Hathaway Inc.
Opelika ObserverOpelikaWeekly
Pickens County HeraldCarrolltonWeekly
Piedmont JournalPiedmontWeekly
PostCentreWeekly
Press-RegisterMobile1821[3] Tri-WeeklyAlabama Media Group / Advance PublicationsBegan as Mobile Commercial Register in 1821, became Press-Register in 1932 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 TimesPell CityWeekly
Sand Mountain ReporterAlbertvilleDaily
Selma SunSelmaWeeklyCindy Fisher
Selma Times-JournalSelmaDaily
Shelby County ReporterColumbianaWeekly
South AlabamianJacksonWeeklyJim Cox
Southeast SunEnterpriseWeekly
Southern StarOzarkDaily
Sumter CircularYorkWeekly
Sumter County Record-JournalLivingstonWeekly
The Tallassee TribuneTallassee1919WeeklyBoone Newsmedia
Talk Of SemmesSemmesDailyDaily online, weekly broadsheet
Thomasville TimesThomasvilleWeeklyJim Cox
Times-JournalFort PayneDaily
Times-RecordFayetteWeekly
TimesDailyFlorenceDaily
Troy MessengerTroyDaily
Trussville TribuneTrussville2005WeeklyScott Buttram / Principle Publishing GroupDaily online, weekly print. Covers Trussville, Clay, Pinson, Argo, Springville, Center Point, Leeds, Moody, Irondale
Tuscaloosa NewsTuscaloosaDailyGateHouse Media
Valley Times-NewsLanettDaily
Washington County NewsChatomWeeklyWillie T. Gray / Gray & Gray Inc.(Website)
Western StarBessemerWeekly
Wetumpka HeraldWetumpkaWeeklyTallapoosa Publishers, Inc.

University newspapers

Defunct

TitleLocaleYear est.Notes
AdvertiserMoulton1828
AdvocateHuntsville1815Ceased in 1893
Alabama CourierClaiborne1819Published by Tucker & Turner and ceased operations sometime in the 1820s[4]
Alabama Journal,[5] Alabama State JournalMontgomerybegan 1869Bought by Gannett; see Montgomery Advertiser
Alabama Observer
Alabama RepublicanHuntsville1816
Alabama Time-PieceAldrich18951902[6]
American Star[7] Sheffield
Baptist LeaderBirmingham
Birmingham Iron AgeBirmingham1874[8]
Birmingham Post-Herald[9] BirminghamCeased in 2005
Cahawba Press and Alabama Intelligencer1819
Geneva County ReaperGeneva1901Ceased in 2024
Daily Rebel[10] Selma1865
HalcyonSt. Stephens1814
Hoover Gazette[11] Hoover20062007
Huntsville NewsHuntsville1964Ceased in 1996
Meteor[12] Tuscaloosa1872
Mobile CentinelFort Stoddert1811[13]
Mobile Gazette1813
The Mobile Morning NewsMobile1865
Mobile News ItemMobile1910Ceased about 1944
Pike County News
RepublicanMontgomery1821
RepublicanTuscaloosa1819
Southern CourierMontgomery1964
Times-Plain DealerBirmingham
Weekly PostRainsville

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Encyclopedia of Alabama . . March 4, 2017 .
  2. Web site: Alabama Newspapers . Alabama Press Association . Birmingham . March 4, 2017 .
  3. Book: The South in the Building of the Nation . Southern Historical Publication Society . Richmond, VA . 1909 . Southern Press . 402–436 . https://hdl.handle.net/2027/yale.39002004114386?urlappend=%3Bseq=522 . Date of establishment of leading Southern newspapers . 7 . 2027/yale.39002004114386?urlappend=%3Bseq=522 .
  4. Web site: Alabama Courier (Claiborne, A.T. [Alabama Territory]) 1819-182? ]. Llibrary of Congress . 9 September 2021.
  5. News: About Alabama journal. volume (Montgomery, Ala.) 1940–1993 . 17 May 2017 . Library of Congress.
  6. Web site: About The Alabama time-piece. (Aldrich, Ala.) 1895-19?? « Chronicling America « Library of Congress . Chroniclingamerica.loc.gov . 2014-06-02.
  7. Book: . The Negro Press in the United States. 1922. University of Chicago Press. 9780742642652 .
  8. Web site: Browse Collections . Digital Collections . Birmingham Public Library . March 4, 2017 .
  9. Web site: 23 September 2005 . Alabama's Birmingham Post-Herald to close today .
  10. News: About Chattanooga daily rebel. (Selma, Ala.) 1865-1865 . 15 May 2017 . Library of Congress.
  11. Web site: 16 August 2007 . The Hoover Gazette puts out last issue today .
  12. Web site: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama Insane Hospital's newspaper the Meteor . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20201120020743/https://archives.alabama.gov/meteor/meteor.html . 2020-11-20 . 2020-05-28.
  13. Book: Benjamin Buford Williams. A Literary History of Alabama: the Nineteenth Century. 1979. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 978-0-8386-2054-0.

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