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What are your thoughts on AL.com?
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AL.com used to be better a few years ago but now we rarely have any deep hard hitting stories, we have plenty of stores about the latest BBQ restaurant, and more than enough about the sports. Birmingham just set a record for the number of murders in its history. How about do a deep dive multipart story about this. One part can be about the gangs, another one on the drugs, another one about the causes (if any), and another one about the plans (if any) the city has for solving these problems. How about a story about the school system? I can think of a ton of story ideas but we get the same recycled stories.
Top Comment: The examples you give are interesting because despite al.com's dwindling resources, they have, in fact, published long-running multi-part series of deep dives into gun violence and education. They don't show up every day, but when they do, they're pretty solid. https://www.al.com/staff/abookman/posts.html https://www.al.com/user/tcrain/posts.html And, for what it's worth, https://www.al.com/uab/