From staff reports
BIRMINGHAM — In an in-depth article recently published by Weld for Birmingham, publisher Mark Kelly examines developments at Alabama Media Group, and explores the impact on the community and local journalism.
The move a few years ago to cut daily publication of The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times and The Mobile Press-Register to three days per week leaves Alabama’s three largest cities without daily newspapers.
From the hiring of a senior sports writer who resigned from the Tallahassee Democrat six weeks earlier amid allegations of plagiarism to massive cuts in the news staff to the abandonment of an 8-year-old, $25 million building for a move to a three-story warehouse, AMG has made some curious decisions while shifting focus from that of a daily newspaper to a digitally oriented website.
You can read Kelly’s full report here.
JUST EIGHT YEARS AFTER ITS GRAND OPENING, THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS HAS ALREADY LEFT ITS $25 MILLION HEADQUARTERS BEHIND. PHOTO BY DAVID GARRETT.
AL.COM HAS RELOCATED TO THE RELATIVELY HUMBLER ENVIRONS OF THE YOUNG & VANN BUILDING. PHOTO BY DAVID GARRETT.
