The Birmingham News
The Birmingham News was the principal newspaper for Birmingham, Alabama, United States in the latter half of the 20th Century and the first quarter of the 21st.[2] The paper was owned by Advance Publications and was a daily newspaper from its founding through September 30, 2012. After that day, the News and its two sister Alabama newspapers, the Press-Register in Mobile and The Huntsville Times, moved to a thrice-weekly print-edition publication schedule (Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays).
Type
Daily newspaper (1888–2012);
Sunday-Wednesday-Friday (September 2012–February 2023)
"The News": (unknown)
The Evening News: 1888
The Daily News: 1889
The Birmingham News: 1895
February 26, 2023
1725 1st Avenue North
Birmingham, Alabama 35203
US
30,000 (est.)[1]
The Huntsville Times
Press-Register (Mobile)
The News and its sister newspapers printed their final edition on February 26, 2023, after almost 135 years of publication. Their digital operation, AL.com, survives.
Honors[edit]
Former Birmingham News reporter Victor Gold was in 1964 an aide to U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater and subsequently the press secretary to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. He was also affiliated with President George H. W. Bush.[14]
In 1991, Ron Casey, Harold Jackson and Joey Kennedy received a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for their editorial campaign analyzing inequities in Alabama's tax system and proposing needed reforms.
In 2006, staff photographer Bernard Troncale took top honors at the Society of Professional Journalists' Green Eyeshade Awards for his work on a series about AIDS in Africa.
In 2006 the News editorial staff were finalists for another Pulitzer for Editorial Writing for a series of editorials reversing the paper's longstanding support of the death penalty. That same year the paper won two Awards of Excellence from the Society for News Design for the paper's overall graphic layout.
In 2007, reporter Brett Blackledge won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for his series of articles exposing corruption in Alabama's two-year college system.
In 2018, columnist John Archibald won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his columns about former governor Robert J. Bentley, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore and corruption in state politics.[15]
In 2023, the newspaper won two Pulitzer Prizes. John Archibald, Ashley Remkus, Ramsey Archibald, and Challen Stephens won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for a series on a scandal in Brookside, Alabama where police officers had engaged on a rampant campaign of fining and towing motorists to corruptly keep the proceeds on fabricated charges. The team included a father-son duo in the two Archibalds. Kyle Whitmire won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for a series called "State of Denial" on the legacy of the Confederacy in Alabama, and how it harmed and stunted the state.[16][17]