The Tuscaloosa News

The Tuscaloosa News

The Tuscaloosa News began in 1818 and is looking forward to its upcoming bicentennial celebration. The publication is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, a growing city that is just a short drive from Birmingham, Atlanta, New Orleans, Nashville, Memphis and the Gulf Coast. The Tuscaloosa News has a 10 county coverage area consisting of Bibb, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Lamar, Marengo, Perry, Pickens, Sumter and Tuscaloosa counties. Daily circulation of the paper is 28,100, peaking to over 31,600 on Sundays.

The Tuscaloosa News

At a Glance

  • In 2002, The News launched TideSports.com, a site dedicated to the coverage of University of Alabama athletics that receives over 65 million page views per month

The Tuscaloosa News

315 28th Avenue
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401

(205) 345-0505

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/

Awards

  • 2012 Pulitzer Prize, Social Media on Breaking-News Coverage
  • 2010, 2011 Associated Press Sports Editors, Tripple Crown (Daily, Sunday, Website)
  • 10 ASPE Top-10 Awards
  • The Tuscaloosa News won 10 national awards for its sports coverage in 2012 from the Associated Press Sports Editors. Only the New York Times, with 13 total awards, won more.
  • The Tuscaloosa News also won the APSE Grand Slam, the organization’s highest honor, for the second time, for earning top-10 honors in judging for Sunday sections, daily sections, special sections and website. The Tuscaloosa News competed in the under-30,000 circulation category for its sections and in the under-500,000 monthly unique visitors category in the web contest.
  • The Tuscaloosa News won top-10 writing awards for project writing, beat writing, breaking news and feature writing, and also won a top-10 award in the multimedia division.
  • Chase Goodbread and Tommy Deas won top-10 recognition in the feature writing division. Goodbread won for his story on University of Alabama football offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier. Deas was honored for his profile of late boxer Edgar Ross.
  • Goodbread, Deas, Cecil Hurt, Aaron Suttles and Andrew Carroll were all honored for their project looking back at Alabama’s 1992 national championship football team.
  • Goodbread was also recognized with a top-10 award in the beat writing division for his coverage of UA football.
  • Carroll and staff writer Jason Morton garnered recognition in the breaking news division for their coverage of a fight that broke out among patrons at a basketball game between Paul W. Bryant High and Central High.
  • Graphic artist Anthony Bratina won a top-10 award in the multimedia division for his interactive online graphic on UA head football coach Nick Saban’s coaching tree.
  • The APSE awards are voted on by sports editors from across the nation during four days of judging, which concluded Feb. 13.

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