More than a newspaper
When journalists Ashley Trice and Rob Holbert began musing more than two decades ago about how odd it was Alabama's second-largest city didn't have an alt-weekly newspaper, they weren't initially thinking about starting one themselves, much less creating Mobile's paper of record.
But since the Mobile (Ala.) Press-Register ended its print publication in February 2023, Lagniappe has been the city's main print newspaper. Lagniappe (pronounced lan-yap, a Creole word, in a nod to Mobile's French-Canadian heritage, meaning "a little something extra for free") is the largest independently owned weekly newspaper in Mobile and has been covering southern Alabama's Mobile and Baldwin counties since July 2002. It offers a free weekly print edition at more than 300 locations, or readers can pay to subscribe to the digital version with an option to have the printed paper mailed to them.
