The Advertiser-Gleam

The Advertiser–Gleam is a newspaper serving Guntersville, Alabama, in the United States. It was founded by Porter Harvey in 1941 after he left the Birmingham Post. Harvey had worked for a number of other papers, including the New York Post and the Nashville Tennessean. Initially named the Guntersville Gleam, the paper was named for the gleam of sunlight made on the town's Guntersville lake. The paper disregarded most traditions of the time regarding small-town papers. It ran a few editorials, almost exclusively ran local news, did not departmentalize its stories, and adopted a casual, occasionally humorous style. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the paper was best known for its unique approach to obituaries, which combined personal details of the deceased's life with anecdotes and style more common in the obituaries of famous people. 

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