[2] The New York Times Company acquired the News in 1985 from the Public Welfare Foundation, a charitable entity.

[3] The News had been donated to that foundation by its owner Edward Marsh, along with other newspapers he owned, before his death in 1964.

[8] Beginning in 2001, the News constructed and occupied a new 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m2) facility overlooking the Black Warrior River.

[10] The second Pulitzer Prize was awarded for the paper's outstanding reporting on the tornado outbreaks of April 25 to 28, 2011.

The reason for its expansion into Birmingham is to fill a perceived void in the market when the Birmingham News cut back publication to three days a week earlier in the year.