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:
Name Locale Year Est. Frequency Publisher/parent company Notes Advertiser-Gleam Guntersville Weekly Alabama Baptist Birmingham 1843 Weekly Alabama Messenger Birmingham (Website) Alabama Times Birmingham Alexander City Outlook Alexander City 1892 Bi-Weekly Tallapoosa Publishers Andalusia Star News Andalusia Daily Anniston Star Anniston 1912 Daily Atmore Advance Atmore Daily Auburn VillagerAuburn2006Weekly Baldwin Times Bay Minette Weekly Birmingham Business Journal Birmingham Weekly Birmingham News Birmingham 1888 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 Weekly Brewton Standard Brewton Daily Call NewsCitronelle1897WeeklyWillie 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 DemocratGrove Hill1856WeeklyJim Cox Cleburne News Heflin Weekly Courier Journal Florence Weekly Cullman Times Cullman Daily Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. 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. 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 Greenville Advocate Greenville Weekly Huntsville Times Huntsville 1910 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 Vernon 1896 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 Mobile Weekly Monroe JournalMonroeville1866Weekly Montgomery Advertiser Montgomery 1829 Daily USA Today Co. Montgomery Independent Montgomery Weekly News Courier Athens Daily Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. North Jefferson News Gardendale Weekly Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. Northport Gazette Northport Weekly Opelika-Auburn News Opelika Daily Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Opelika Observer Opelika Weekly Pickens County Herald Carrollton Weekly Piedmont Journal Piedmont Weekly Post Centre Weekly Press-Register Mobile 1821 Tri-Weekly Alabama Media Group / Advance Publications Began 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 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 AlabamianJacksonWeeklyJim Cox Southeast Sun Enterprise Weekly Southern Star Ozark Daily Sumter Circular York Weekly Sumter County Record-Journal Livingston Weekly The Tallassee TribuneTallassee1919WeeklyBoone Newspapers Talk Of Semmes Semmes Weekly Thomasville TimesThomasvilleWeeklyJim Cox Times-Journal Fort Payne Daily Times-Record Fayette Weekly TimesDaily Florence Daily Troy Messenger Troy Daily Trussville TribuneTrussville2005WeeklyScott Buttram / Principle Publishing Group Tuscaloosa News Tuscaloosa Daily GateHouse Media Tuskegee NewsTuskegeea1865Weekly Valley Times-News Lanett Daily Washington County NewsChatomWeeklyWillie T. Gray / Gray & Gray Inc.(Website) Western Star Bessemer Weekly Wetumpka HeraldWetumpkaWeeklyTallapoosa 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 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 Montgomerybegan 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 ReaperGeneva1901Ceased in 2024Daily RebelSelma1865 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 NewsMobile1865The North Jefferson News Gardendale 1970 Ceased in 2020Mobile News ItemMobile1910Ceased 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 List of radio stations in Alabama List of television stations in Alabama List of African American newspapers in Alabama Media in cities in Alabama: Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa Journalism: :Category:Journalists from Alabama University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences in Tuscaloosa Alabama literature
References
eCirc FAS-FAX Report 2005-03-31. Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Bibliography
(+ List of titles 50+ years old)
(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.
(Includes information about Alabama newspapers)
External links
(Directory ceased in 2017)
USNPL.com: Alabama Newspapers. US Newspaper List.
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