The Birmingham Post-Herald

The Birmingham Post-Herald was a daily newspaper in Birmingham, Alabama, that published its final edition on September 23, 2005, after operating for decades as the city's afternoon paper alongside the morning Birmingham News.

The paper's roots trace to 1850, before Birmingham's founding, through predecessor titles including the Elyton Herald and later the Birmingham Age-Herald and the Birmingham Post. The Birmingham Post-Herald itself was formed in 1950 when Scripps-Howard, which already owned the afternoon Birmingham Post, acquired the Age-Herald and combined the two under a joint operating agreement with the rival Birmingham News, which handled printing, advertising, and circulation for both papers while each maintained an independent newsroom. In 1996, the Post-Herald and the News swapped publication times, making the Post-Herald a morning paper. E.W. Scripps announced the paper's closure on September 22, 2005, citing the Birmingham market's inability to support two daily newspapers; the final edition appeared the next day, with average daily circulation of 7,544 in its last full year.

Over its history, the paper covered Birmingham city and business news and figured in several episodes of the civil rights movement, including 1961 photography of a Ku Klux Klan attack on Freedom Riders and a 1962 editorial that led to the U.S. Supreme Court case Mills v. Alabama.

The paper ceased publication in 2005; historical issues are preserved on microfilm and digitized through the Library of Congress's Chronicling America collection covering 1950 to 2005.