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Lagniappe (newspaper)

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Type
  
Alternative newspaper

Founded
  
July 24, 2002

Format
  
Tabloid

Owner(s)
  
Something Extra Publishing, Inc.

Publisher
  
Ashley Toland & Rob Holbert

Headquarters
  
1102-A Dauphin St. Mobile, AL 36604 United States

Lagniappe - "Something Extra for Mobile" - is a weekly alternative newspaper published in Mobile, Alabama. Lagniappe was first published bi-weekly on July 24, 2002 under the guidance of co-publishers Ashley Toland and Rob Holbert, who now serve as editor and managing editor respectively. Beginning April 2014, Lagniappe is published weekly. Since 2004, the Mobile Press Club has honored Lagniappe for its reporting and features.

Regular sections in Lagniappe are news, commentary, cuisine, music, style, arts, and sports.

Since 2003, Lagniappe has sponsored and hosted the annual "Nappie Awards", where favorite local people, places, and things are chosen by readers' votes.

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Lagniappe (newspaper) Wikipedia