Black & White (Birmingham newspaper)

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Black & White
Type Biweekly newspaper
Owner(s)Chuck Geiss
Founder(s)Chuck Geiss
PublisherChuck Geiss
Founded1992 (1992)
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publicationJanuary 10, 2013 (2013-01-10)
Headquarters2210 2nd Avenue North, FL 2, Birmingham, AL 35203-3857
City Birmingham, Alabama
Country United States
Circulation 30,000(as of 2013) [1]
ISSN 1064-0134
OCLC number 26199931
Website web.archive.org/web/20130505150323/http://www.bwcitypaper.com

Black & White was a biweekly alternative newspaper covering news and culture in Birmingham, Alabama. It was established in 1992 by Chuck Geiss, who continued to own and publish the paper until it shut down in early 2013. [2] [3] A member of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, [4] it described itself as "Birmingham's oldest and largest non-daily publication". [1] When Black & White suspended publication in 2013, Geiss initially intended to relaunch it with a new business model, [5] but this plan never came to fruition, and the paper ended up permanently shutting down. AL.com described Black & White as "...a victim of the contraction of the print news industry nationwide in the face of advancing digital alternatives." [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "About Black & White". Black & White. Archived from the original on 2013-05-05. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
  2. 1 2 Diel, Stan (2013-09-12). "Chuck Geiss, former Black & White publisher, has died (updated)". AL.com. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
  3. Keith, Todd (2011-07-19). Insiders' Guide® to Birmingham. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 251. ISBN   9780762769353.
  4. Fazzone, Amanda (1999-11-09). "Leishman Named GM at Birmingham Weekly". AltWeeklies.com. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
  5. Diel, Stan (2013-01-11). "Alternative weekly Black & White suspends publication, plans to re-launch after retooling". AL.com. Retrieved 2019-06-29.