The Alabama Initiative for Independent Journalism is a non-profit, non-partisan organization serving the civic good of Birmingham and Alabama by supporting journalism that makes a difference and citizen engagement with news that is fair, factual, unflinching, and focused on important matters.

We work to provide journalism that serves as a watchdog on government and other powerful institutions, highlights significant issues, and uncovers solutions as well as problems. These were our goals when we started to publish BirminghamWatch five years ago, and we have not stopped.

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