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:
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 |
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Advertiser | Moulton | 1828 | |
Advocate | Huntsville | 1815 | Ceased in 1893 |
Alabama Courier | Claiborne | 1819 | Published by Tucker & Turner and ceased operations sometime in the 1820s |
Alabama Journal, Alabama State Journal | Montgomery | began 1869 | Bought by Gannett; see Montgomery Advertiser |
Alabama Observer | |||
Alabama Republican | Huntsville | 1816 | |
Alabama Time-Piece | Aldrich | 1895 | 1902 |
American Star | Sheffield | ||
Baptist Leader | Birmingham | ||
Birmingham Iron Age | Birmingham | 1874 | |
Birmingham Post-Herald | Birmingham | Ceased in 2005 | |
Cahawba Press and Alabama Intelligencer | 1819 | ||
Geneva County Reaper | Geneva | 1901 | Ceased in 2024 |
Daily Rebel | Selma | 1865 | |
Halcyon | St. Stephens | 1814 | |
Hoover Gazette | Hoover | 2006 | 2007 |
Huntsville News | Huntsville | 1964 | Ceased in 1996 |
Meteor | Tuscaloosa | 1872 | |
Mobile Centinel | Fort Stoddert | 1811 | |
Mobile Gazette | 1813 | ||
The Mobile Morning News | Mobile | 1865 | |
Mobile News Item | Mobile | 1910 | Ceased about 1944 |
Pike County News | |||
Republican | Montgomery | 1821 | |
Republican | Tuscaloosa | 1819 | |
Southern Courier | Montgomery | 1964 | |
Times-Plain Dealer | Birmingham | ||
Weekly Post | Rainsville |
See also
- Alabama media
- Journalism:
- Alabama literature
References
- ^ Federal Writers' Project 1941.
- ^ "Alabama Newspapers". Birmingham: Alabama Press Association. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
- ^ "Encyclopedia of Alabama". Alabama Humanities Foundation. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
- ^ Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc., Locations: Alabama, Montgomery, AL, retrieved March 27, 2017
- ^ Berkshire Hathaway Inc., "Daily Newspapers: Alabama" (PDF), 2016 Annual Report, Omaha, Nebraska
- ^ GateHouse Media, LLC, Our Markets: Alabama, Pittsford, New York, retrieved March 27, 2017
- ^ "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?". Llibrary of Congress. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- "About Alabama journal. volume (Montgomery, Ala.) 1940–1993". Library of Congress. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- ^ 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 2014-06-02.
- ^ Frederick German Detweiler (1922). The Negro Press in the United States. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780742642652.
- "Browse Collections". Digital Collections. Birmingham Public Library. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
- "Alabama's Birmingham Post-Herald to close today". 23 September 2005.
- "About Chattanooga daily rebel. (Selma, Ala.) 1865-1865". Library of Congress. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
- "The Hoover Gazette puts out last issue today". 16 August 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 2020-11-20. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
- 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
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: 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
- "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.
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