The Alabama Media Group is killing the print editions of The Birmingham News, the Huntsville Times and the of Mobile. All three will cease on February 26, 2023, according to Mediapost.
This is part of a restructuring by parent Advance Publications that also included New Orleans’ Times-Picayune, NPR writes.
Tom Bates, president of Alabama Media Group, says the company has seen great. growth on the digital side, NPR continues.
“In an effort to deliver more news try to deliver more news to more folks and follow where people were going, we've made the decision to stop printing next year," Bates says.
Bates continues that the combined circulation of the three titles was 260,000 a decade ago, but not is down to around 30,000. In contrast, AL.com pulls a million people a day, NPR continues.
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