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WEB3 days ago · BW’s Crenshaw Recognized With NFPW National Awards July 10, 2024. Solomon Crenshaw Jr., a regular writer for BirminghamWatch, recently won a third-place award and honorable mention in the National Federation of Press Women’s Communicator’s Awards for two of his BirminghamWatch pieces, along with a first-place award for a story published by the Bending the Arc Project.
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WEBAbout Us. BirminghamWatch is a digital-based news organization and program of the Alabama Initiative for Independent Journalism (AIIJ). AIIJ is a non-profit and non-partisan organization that aims to serve the civic good of Birmingham and Alabama by supporting journalism that makes a positive impact and encourages citizen engagement with fair ...
Birmingham Council Waits on Budget Amendments as New …
WEBJun 25, 2024 · Councilor Carol Clarke speaks during a Birmingham City Council meeting June 25, 2024. (Birmingham Council livestream) The March computer network disruption that interfered with the city of Birmingham’s operations for weeks caused further confusion Tuesday, with the City Council voting to delay approval of several budget amendments.
Founders - BirminghamWatch
WEBFounders. Carol Nunnelley. Carol Nunnelley was an Alabama journalist who led enterprise and investigative reporting at The Birmingham News over three decades; coverage that addressed the city and state’s intractable problems of race, poverty and inept and corrupt government. She was managing editor of The News from 1992 through 2000.
Miles Might Consider BSC Property as Other Universities Express …
WEBMar 28, 2024 · UPDATED — Miles College may have interest in the campus of Birmingham-Southern College, which announced this week that it will close at the end of May. Miles College President Bobbie Knight told BirminghamWatch. “As a Miles College community made up of faculty, students and families, our primary focus has been to support and address the ...
Contributors - BirminghamWatch
WEBVirginia Martin: Martin is lead news editor of BirminghamWatch.She was political editor of The Birmingham News, where she directed local, state and national government coverage. She also led reporting of health and the environment at The News, where she worked from 1988 to 2012, and was an editor on coverage of Alabama’s two-year college system that won a 2007 Pulitzer Prize.
Alabama and Jefferson County Republican Candidates
WEBNov 17, 2023 · BW’s Crenshaw Recognized With NFPW National Awards July 10, 2024. Solomon Crenshaw Jr., a regular writer for BirminghamWatch, recently won a third-place award and honorable mention in the National Federation of Press Women’s Communicator’s Awards for two of his BirminghamWatch pieces, along with a first-place award for a story published by the Bending the Arc Project.
BirminghamWatch General Election Voter Guide 2022
WEBNov 6, 2022 · BirminghamWatch’s 2022 General Election Voter Guide will brief you on all of those decisions, with profiles of the candidates and a story on the Jefferson County sheriff’s race, which has become arguably the most hotly contested race in the county. The guide also includes stories on the constitutional issues, sample ballots on which you can ...
The Tragedy of North Birmingham - BirminghamWatch
WEBSep 2, 2022 · By the spring of 2020, the century-old industrial plant on Birmingham’s 35th Avenue was literally falling apart. Chunks of the metal doors fronting several of the 1,800-degree ovens — which heat coal to produce a fuel called coke — had broken off and tumbled to the ground. With the doors damaged, the …
How Birmingham Reflects an Entwined Struggle for Civil and Labor …
WEBFeb 19, 2024 · The Black freedom struggle and the labor movement story have been going on well before the 1960s and continued well after, up to the present day.”. This interplay was present in the early years of Birmingham, when the iron and steel industries drew workers from across the rural South and the world. …