List of newspapers in Alabama
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:
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[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,[10] Alabama State Journal | Montgomery | began 1869 | Bought by Gannett; see Montgomery Advertiser |
| Alabama Observer | |||
| Alabama Republican | Huntsville | 1816[11] | |
| Alabama Time-Piece | Aldrich | 1895 | 1902[12] |
| American Star[13] | Sheffield | ||
| Baptist Leader[13] | Birmingham | ||
| Birmingham Iron Age | Birmingham | 1874[14] | |
| Birmingham Post-Herald[15] | Birmingham | Ceased in 2005 | |
| Cahawba Press and Alabama Intelligencer | 1819[11] | ||
| Geneva County Reaper | Geneva | 1901 | Ceased in 2024 |
| Daily Rebel[16] | Selma | 1865 | |
| Halcyon | St. Stephens | 1814[11] | |
| Hoover Gazette[17] | Hoover | 2006 | 2007 |
| Huntsville News | Huntsville | 1964 | Ceased in 1996[18] |
| Meteor[19] | Tuscaloosa | 1872 | |
| Mobile Centinel | Fort Stoddert | 1811[11] | |
| Mobile Gazette | 1813[11] | ||
| The Mobile Morning News | Mobile | 1865 | |
| Mobile News Item | Mobile | 1910 | Ceased about 1944 |
| Pike County News[13] | |||
| Republican | Montgomery | 1821[11] | |
| Republican | Tuscaloosa | 1819[11] | |
| Southern Courier | Montgomery | 1964 | |
| Times-Plain Dealer[13] | Birmingham | ||
| Weekly Post | Rainsville |
See also
- Alabama media
- Journalism:
- Alabama literature
U.S. newspapers
References
- ^ a b c Federal Writers' Project 1941.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Alabama Newspapers". Birmingham: Alabama Press Association. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Encyclopedia of Alabama". Alabama Humanities Foundation. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
- ^ a b c Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc., Locations: Alabama, Montgomery, AL, retrieved March 27, 2017
- ^ a b Berkshire Hathaway Inc., "Daily Newspapers: Alabama" (PDF), 2016 Annual Report, Omaha, Nebraska
- ^ a b GateHouse Media, LLC, Our Markets: Alabama, Pittsford, New York, retrieved March 27, 2017
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "About The Alabama time-piece. (Aldrich, Ala.) 1895-19?? « Chronicling America « Library of Congress". Chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
- ^ a b c d 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
{{citation}}: 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.
Images
Mobile Centinel, 1811
