Alabama Press Association

07/02/2026

🔎Check out the latest issue of AlaPressa and read about...

⛱️ICYMI: Summer Convention (included links: convention survey, speaker presentations, Alabama Publisher, photos, contest information, award order form)
🗞️Two Award-Winning Alabama Newspapers FOR SALE
🕵️‍♂️“Alabama Open Records Desk aims to help newspapers navigate public records requests”
🔥“The Fake story that tricked Alabama”

Email from Alabama Press Association Convention/contest wrap-up, stories and more! Summer Convention Recap and More! | July 2026 ICYMI: Summer Convention APA delegates gathered in Orange Beach last we

06/09/2026

Today, ABA President Sharon Tinsley visited with students from across the country who are attending the UA CIS Multimedia Journalism Workshop. Along with the ABA, representatives of the AL Press Association Foundation spoke with these young women about the camp's theme, "The Right to Write".

05/06/2026

Ashley Trice and Rob Holbert — co-publishers of Lagniappe, the alt-weekly turned investigative newspaper covering Mobile and Alabama's Gulf Coast — join the Chuck Toddcast to share the origin story of how their independent publication has grown into the region's premier investigative....

04/11/2026

03/19/2026

To celebrate Sunshine Week, we are sharing the 2025 division winners of the APA Media Awards Editorial Contest Best Public Service Award and the FOI-Freedom of Information Award. Alabama newspapers know their communities! 💪☀️

Entries are in for the 2026 awards! Winners of the editorial, advertising and magazine contests will be announced in June. 🎉

03/16/2026

is here! This week highlights the significance of government and accountability. We are proud of our member newspapers who use information protected under these laws to keep their communities informed. Join the discussion: sunshineweek.org ☀️

02/13/2026

“SEIZED,” a documentary about the illegal August 2023 police raid on the Marion County Record in Kansas, made its world premiere in the U.S. Documentary Competition at Sundance 2026, Jan. 25.

“All 5 screenings at Sundance enjoyed a full house. The audience reaction was beyond our expectations, and many reviews have been coming in since,” said the film's Director Sharon Liese.

SPJ supported the film’s development with a $15,000 contribution in 2024 through its First Amendment Forever Fund. In 2023, SPJ also committed up to $20,000 in legal defense assistance to the Record following the raid.

Directed by Liese and produced by Sasha Alpert and Paul Matyasovsky, the film follows the small Kansas town of Marion in the aftermath of the raid and the death of the newspaper’s 90-year-old co-owner. It explores press freedom, abuse of power, journalistic ethics, local reporting and the constitutional stakes at the heart of the story.

🔗 Learn more about “SEIZED”: https://bit.ly/4kp3s53

02/10/2026

“If you want real journalism, support real journalism. Subscribe to something. Pay for it. Because if the only “news” left is paid for by someone with a stake in the outcome, you’re not getting journalism, you’re getting a sales pitch.”

“Fake news” has become the laziest phrase in modern politics. Most of the time, it’s just a catchphrase for anything inconvenient.

01/12/2026

APA members and Alabama journalism students: Join us! https://pci.jotform.com/form/260074335612147