Cutting Ties, Birmingham News Fires Pulitzer-Winning Journalist

By: Mark Kelly | Weld for Birmingham

I once wrote for The Birmingham News. And I was thrilled to do it.

How’s that for a confession? I didn’t write much for them, and not for very long. But I wrote at a time when a byline in Alabama’s largest daily newspaper and most influential media presence meant something — to me, and to many other readers and writers, hundreds of thousands of them across the state.