Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) The McClatchy Company[1]
Publisher Sean Burke
Editor Steve Coffman [2]
Founded 1906 (as Fort Worth Star)
Headquarters 808 Throckmorton St.
Fort Worth, Texas 76102
US
Circulation 176,219 daily
184,079 Sunday[3]
ISSN 0889-0013
Website Star-Telegram.com

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is a U.S. daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex. It is owned by The McClatchy Company.

History

In May 1905, Amon G. Carter accepted a job as an advertising space salesman in Fort Worth. A few months later, he agreed to help finance and run a new newspaper in town. The Fort Worth Star printed its first newspaper on February 1, 1906, with Carter as the advertising manager.

The Star lost money, and was in danger of going bankrupt when Carter had an audacious idea: raise additional money and purchase his newspaper's main competition, the Fort Worth Telegram. In November 1908, the Star purchased the Telegram for $100,000, and the two newspapers combined on January 1, 1909, into the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

From 1923 until after World War II, the Star-Telegram was distributed over one of the largest circulation areas of any newspaper in the South, serving not just Fort Worth but also West Texas, New Mexico and western Oklahoma. The newspaper created WBAP in 1922 and Texas' first television station, WBAP-TV, in 1948.[4]

Market

The Star-Telegram’s circulation area is the Fort Worth/Arlington metro area (four counties) and 14 surrounding counties. The newspaper's primary market is the four-county Fort Worth/Arlington metro area, as well as the Dallas and Fort Worth suburb of Grand Prairie. The Fort Worth/Arlington metro area is the western part of the fourth-largest U.S. metropolitan area, the Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington Combined Statistical Area. Fort Worth/Arlington ranks 29th most populous as a metro area.[5]

Pulitzer prizes

Online presence

The Star-Telegram is the nation's oldest continuously operating online newspaper. StarText, an ASCII-based service, was started in 1982 and eventually integrated into the paper's current website, star-telegram.com. The newspaper's "Titletown, TX" video series earned three 2017 Lone Star Emmys, the first in Star-Telegram history, and an award for excellence and innovation in visual storytelling from the 2017 Online Journalism Awards.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Our Markets". McClatchy Company. Archived from the original on April 10, 2017. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
  2. ↑ Baker, Max B. (12 January 2018). "Star-Telegram editor promoted, interim named". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Archived from the original on February 14, 2018. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Star-Telegram". McClatchy Company. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection: A Guide". University of Texas Library. Archived from the original on September 11, 2017. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  5. ↑ "The McClatchy Company - Newspaper Profiles". McClatchy Company. Archived from the original on November 9, 2006. Retrieved May 1, 2018.

Further reading

  • Flemmons, Jerry (1998). Amon: The Texan Who Played Cowboy for America. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 0-89672-406-9.
  • Harral, Paul K. (May 10, 2012). "Extra! Extra! The Star-Telegram: is it still relevant?". Fort Worth, Texas. Fort Worth.
  • The Star-Telegram official site
  • The Star-Telegram official mobile site
  • "2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation" (PDF). Burrelles Luce. March 31, 2007. Retrieved May 29, 2007.
  • "McClatchy Newspapers: Fort Worth Star-Telegram". McClatchy Company. Retrieved October 23, 2006.
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