About

Baldwin Citizen is an independent local publication based on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. We cover the public business of cities and institutions across Baldwin County, Alabama — currently Daphne, Fairhope, Spanish Fort, Foley, Gulf Shores, Orange Beach, and Bay Minette.

The project is small, local, and proudly slow. Our reporting follows agendas, ordinances, votes, and the documents that make up the public record. Every article is reviewed and published by the Baldwin Citizen's editor before it goes live. We link to sources when we have them. We correct what we get wrong, on the record.

Why start here?

Local information in Baldwin County is fragmented across city Facebook pages, packet PDFs, and the occasional regional headline. Important decisions are routinely made in rooms residents could attend if only they knew the meeting was happening. We exist to close that gap.

How we want it to read

We're trying to build the kind of news site you can actually live with — a clean page, organized layout, plain serif type, and quiet margins. The story is the point. The chrome around it should stay out of your way.

That means no full-screen popups asking you to subscribe. No auto-playing video. No autoplaying anything. No cookie wall, no notification permission prompts, no “continue reading” paywall slammed across a half-finished paragraph. Ads, when we run them, are small, labeled, and live at the bottom of an article — one slot, after the sources block, never in the middle of what you're reading.

We'd rather earn less and stay readable than juice every page for another impression. If something on this site ever feels like it's in the way, we want to know — write us at hello@baldwincitizen.com.