FOX 10 in Mobile reports:
An article on AL.com states, “The Birmingham News, Huntsville Times and Mobile Press-Register and Mississippi Press will be published through Sunday, February 26, 2023. Subscribers will continue to receive The Lede, a 7-day-a-week e-edition that reports on each city.”
The article goes on to state that the company will maintain its offices in each of the metro areas. But the decision will result in the closure of the production facility in Mobile and will impact some local employees in production, circulation and advertising, the article states.
In 2012, the Alabama newspapers in Mobile, Birmingham and Huntsville under the umbrella of Advance Newspapers reduced their frequency from daily to three days a week and reduced staff sizes across the state. Advance is the parent company of Alabama Media Group."
Those decisions leave The Montgomery Advertiser as the largest Alabama newspaper still publishing a printed paper, albeit six days a week. They stopped printing a Saturday paper in January.
UPDATE: In response to my question about the changes, the head of the Advertiser replied:
"I wouldn’t have anything to add. Thanks for inquiring."
Paige Oliver Windsor
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