The Sand Mountain Reporter is a newspaper serving Albertville, Alabama and the surrounding area.
The Sand Mountain Reporter began as a five-day-a-week[1] paper in 1954.
It was founded by the Courington family, who owned local radio station WAVU, and it was initially edited by Jesse Culp, a former director of agricultural reporting on that station,[3] At its founding, it was noted by the Anniston Star for its "courage" in using new offset printing technology.
[1] By 1964, citing rising costs of publishing, it had pared down to a twice-weekly publication schedule and merged with rival paper The Albertville Herald.
[4] By 1986, the paper was down to one news reporter and one sports staff, publishing three times a week under editor Randy Troup.