Birmingham News is the principal newspaper for Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
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15 Facts About Birmingham News
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Birmingham News was launched on March 14,1888, by Rufus N Rhodes as The Evening News, a four-page paper with two reporters and $800 of operating capital.
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At the time, the city of Birmingham News was only 17 years old, but was an already booming industrial city and a beacon of the "New South" still recovering from the aftermath of the American Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Staunchly progressive in its political stance, the Birmingham News supported a straight-ticket Democrat platform in election seasons and championed progressive causes such as prohibition.
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The News led the drumbeat for the "Greater Birmingham" movement to annex suburban communities.
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The successful campaign caused the population of the City of Birmingham News to grow from 40,000 in 1900 to 138,685 in 1910, at which time Birmingham News was the third largest city in the South.
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In 1917 the Birmingham News moved to a new six-story Jacobean-style office building on the corner of 4th Avenue North and 22nd Street.
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Year later the paper made good use of its new space by purchasing the rival Birmingham News Ledger, increasing the size of its staff to 748 and its circulation to 60,000.
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In 1927 the Birmingham News Age-Herald was sold to Hanson, who continued publishing both papers.
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The Birmingham News press printed both papers and handled advertising and subscriptions sales while the editorial and reporting staffs remained independent.
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In 1997, the Birmingham News Company switched the morning and evening publications, making the Birmingham News the morning paper and the Post-Herald the evening paper.
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Birmingham News maintained bureaus in Montgomery and Washington, DC The Washington bureau was closed in September 2012.
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Birmingham News moved out of its 2006 building in 2014, after its owners cut back publication and could no longer afford to occupy the large building.
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The Birmingham News moved into a renovated old warehouse a few blocks away, with the 2006 building on the market.
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