The Butler County News
P.O. Box 620
Georgiana, AL 36033
(334) 376-2325
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History
The Butler County News was first published on Thanksgiving Day, 1911, in Georgiana, Ala., by Roger Pride Sr. who was the editor and publisher until his death in March 1957. Roger W. Pride Jr. assumed his father's position as editor and publisher until the publication's sale to Boone Newspapers in 1997.

The newspaper was published in Georgiana until 1971 when Pride began using the Greenville Advocate's press in Greenville, until the press was disassembled in conjunction with The Advocate's sale to Boone Newspapers. The Butler County News is now printed in Selma, Ala., along with Greenville Newspapers' other publications, The Greenville Advocate, The Luverne Journal, The Lowndes Signal, the Butler Express and the Bonus Express.

Mission
The Advocate strives to:

• Report the news of our community honestly, fairly and with integrity;
• Bend over backward to meet the needs of our customers;
• Build commerce and promote the growth of our business community through advertising;
• Give our readers useful, interesting and entertaining information in every issue;
• Edit and publish the news of our community without exclusion;
• Operate at a profit level that allows us to fairlycompensate our employees, reinvest in our organization and to stand independent of outside influences;
• Take an active leadership role and to act as a positive influence in our community;
• Do what we say we will do;
• Treat our readers, advertisers and employees as we would like to be treated ourselves; and, above all, to do what's right, period.

Circulation
Published every Thursday, 900 circulation; Companion shopper is the Butler Express, 10,400 circulation

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