Editing Birmingham, Alabama (section)

==Media==
{{See also|List of television stations in Alabama|List of radio stations in Alabama}}

Birmingham is served by one major newspaper, ''[[The Birmingham News]]'' (circulation 150,346), which changed from daily to thrice-weekly publication on October 1, 2012. ''The Birmingham News''{{'}} Wednesday edition features six sub regional sections named ''East'', ''Hoover'', ''North'', ''Shelby'', ''South'', and ''West'' that cover news stories from those areas. The newspaper has been awarded two Pulitzer Prizes, in 1991 and 2007. The ''[[Birmingham Post-Herald]]'', the city's second daily, published its last issue in 2006. Other local publications include ''[[The North Jefferson News]], The Leeds News'', ''The Trussville Tribune'' (Trussville, Clay and Pinson), ''The Western Star'' (Bessemer) and ''The Western Tribune'' (Bessemer).

The ''[[Birmingham Times]]'', a historic African-American newspaper, also is published weekly. Birmingham is served by the city magazine of the Chamber of Commerce, ''[[The Birmingham News|Birmingham]]'' magazine. ''[[The Alabama Baptist]]'', published weekly in Birmingham, is an entity of the [[Alabama Baptist Convention]]. ''Black & White, Weld'', ''Birmingham Weekly'', and the ''Birmingham Free Press''<ref>{{cite web |author=Stephen Smith |url=http://www.birminghamfreepress.com/ |title=birminghamfreepress.com |publisher=birminghamfreepress.com |access-date=July 14, 2012}}</ref> are some of the free alternative publications that were published in the past (all are now defunct).

Birmingham is part of the Birmingham/Anniston/Tuscaloosa television market. The major television affiliates, most of which have their transmitters and studios located on Red Mountain in Birmingham, are [[WBRC]] 6 ([[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]), [[Alabama Public Television|WBIQ 10]] ([[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]]), [[WVTM-TV|WVTM 13]] ([[NBC]]), [[WTTO|WTTO 21]] ([[The CW Television Network|CW]]), [[WIAT|WIAT 42]] ([[CBS]]), [[WPXH|WPXH 44]] ([[ION Television|ION]]), [[WBMA-LD|WBMA-LD 58/68.2]] ([[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]), and [[WABM|WABM 68]] ([[MyNetworkTV]]).

Major broadcasting companies who own stations in the Birmingham market include [[iHeartMedia]], [[Cox Radio]], [[Cumulus Media]], and Crawford Broadcasting. The ''[[Rick and Bubba]]'' show, which is syndicated to over 25 stations primarily in the Southeast, originates from Birmingham's [[WZZK-FM]]. The [[Paul Finebaum]] sports-talk show, also syndicated and carried nationwide on Sirius digital radio, originated from [[WJOX-FM|WJOX]].

Birmingham is home to [[EWTN]] (Eternal Word Television Network), the world's largest Catholic media outlet and religious media network of any kind, broadcasting to about 350 million television households in more than 145 countries and territories, as of 2022.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ewtn.com/media/fact-sheet.asp |title=Fact Sheet |publisher=EWTN |access-date=July 25, 2022}}</ref>