ATMORE, Ala. — When Don Fletcher checked the mailbox outside his newspaper’s office on Main Street in late September, he found a little gold mine waiting for him.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
In Alabama, another small-town paper hit in ‘open season’ on free press
It’s an increasingly familiar drama: Local authorities go after journalists and publishers of small papers, which find themselves on the First Amendment’s front lines
By Paul Farhi
November 27, 2023 at 5:00 a.m. EST