Anniston Star

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The Anniston Star
The July 27, 2005 front page of The Anniston Star
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	Consolidated Publishing Co.
Publisher	H. Brandt Ayers
Editor	Bob Davis
Founded	1900 (as The Anniston Republic)
Headquarters	4305 McClellan Boulevard Anniston, Alabama 36202 United States

Website: www.annistonstar.com

The Anniston Star is the daily newspaper serving Anniston, Alabama, and the surrounding six-county region. Average Sunday circulation in September 2004 was 26,747. The newspaper is locally-owned by Consolidated Publishing Company, which is controlled by the descendants of Col. Harry M. Ayers, one of the newspaper's early owners. The Star is Consolidated's flagship paper. Other newspapers printed by the company include The (Talladega) Daily Home, and the weeklies The Cleburne News, The Jacksonville News, and the Piedmont Journal. The current publisher, H. Brandt Ayers, is the son of Col. Ayers. During the civil rights movement, The Star gained a reputation as one of the few liberal-minded Southern newspapers. It was nicknamed "The Red Star" by George Wallace, because of its support of school integration — one of the few Southern newspapers to take such a stance.

The Star is a community newspaper and the dominant source of retail advertising in the region. While circulation has declined to just over 25,000 it still remains a rare institution in the news industry. It folded its for-profit status in the 1990s to become a non-profit "teaching" newspaper^[clarify] just like The St. Petersburg Times^[1] or the Delaware-based Independent Newspapers of Delmarva.^[2]