Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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 The front page of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram,May 30, 2024 | |
| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | The McClatchy Company[1] |
| Publisher | Steve Coffman |
| Editor | Steve Coffman[2] |
| Founded | 1906 (asFort Worth Star) |
| Political alignment | Conservative |
| Headquarters | 808 Throckmorton St. Fort Worth,Texas76102 US |
| Circulation | 43,342 (as of 2023)[3] |
| ISSN | 0889-0013 |
| Website | www |
TheFort Worth Star-Telegramis an American dailynewspaperservingFort Worthand Tarrant County, the western half of theNorth Texasarea known as theMetroplex.It is owned byThe McClatchy Company.[4]
History
[edit]In May 1905,Amon G. Carteraccepted 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. TheFort Worth Starprinted its first newspaper on February 1, 1906, with Carter as the advertising manager,[citation needed]andLouis J. Worthamas its first editor.[5]
TheStarlost money, and was in danger of going bankrupt when Carter had an audacious idea: raise additional money and purchase his newspaper's main competition, theFort Worth Telegram.In November 1908, theStarpurchased theTelegramfor$100,000, and the two newspapers combined on January 1, 1909, into theFort Worth Star-Telegram.
From 1923 until after World War II, theStar-Telegramwas distributed over one of the largest circulation areas of any newspaper in theSouth,serving not just Fort Worth but alsoWest Texas,New Mexicoand westernOklahoma.The newspaper createdWBAPin 1922 and Texas' first television station,WBAP-TV,in 1948.[6]
In August 2024, the newspaper announced it will reduce its number of weekly print editions to three a week: Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.[7]
Market
[edit]TheStar-Telegram'scirculation 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.[8]
Pulitzer prizes
[edit]- 1981Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography:Larry C. Pricefor "his photographs from Liberia".
- 1985Pulitzer Prize for Public Service:Mark Thompson"for reporting which revealed that nearly 250 U.S. servicemen had lost their lives as a result of a design problem in helicopters built byBell Helicopter—a revelation which ultimately led the Army to ground almost 600Huey helicopterspending their modification ".
Online presence
[edit]TheStar-Telegramis the nation's oldest continuously operatingonline newspaper.[9][citation needed]StarText,an ASCII-based service, was started in 1982 and eventually integrated into the paper's current website, star-telegram.com.
Awards
[edit]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.
In 2006 the Star-Telegram won theMissouri Lifestyle Journalism Awardfor General Excellence, Class IV.[10]
See also
[edit]
References
[edit]- ^"Our Markets".McClatchy Company.Archivedfrom the original on April 10, 2017.RetrievedMarch 26,2017.
- ^"Star-Telegram editor promoted2018".
- ^"2023 Texas Newspaper Directory".Texas Press Association.Archived fromthe originalon May 3, 2023.RetrievedMay 3,2023.
- ^"McClatchy | Markets".November 3, 2021. Archived fromthe originalon November 3, 2021.RetrievedApril 12,2023.
- ^"Louis J. Wortham Helped Star-Telegram Take Root".Fort Worth Star-Telegram.October 30, 1949. p. 407.RetrievedFebruary 24,2023– viaNewspapers.com.
- ^"Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection: A Guide".University of Texas Library.Archivedfrom the original on September 11, 2017.RetrievedMay 1,2018.
- ^Davisson, Matthew (August 2, 2024)."Fort Worth Star-Telegram to scale back print publication to 3 days a week".KTVT.RetrievedAugust 2,2024.
- ^"The McClatchy Company - Newspaper Profiles".McClatchy Company.Archived fromthe originalon November 9, 2006.RetrievedMay 1,2018.
- ^Outing, Steve (August 28, 1995)."Oldest Newspaper BBS Makes Transition to the Web – Editor & Publisher".Editor & Publisher.RetrievedMarch 26,2019.
- ^"Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards: 2006 Winners and Finalists".University of Missouri. October 24, 2006.RetrievedDecember 25,2018.
Further reading
[edit]- Flemmons, Jerry (1998).Amon: The Texan Who Played Cowboy for America.Lubbock:Texas Tech University Press.ISBN0-89672-406-9.
- Harral, Paul K. (May 10, 2012)."Extra! Extra! The Star-Telegram: is it still relevant?".Fort Worth, Texas.Fort Worth.
External links
[edit]- TheStar-Telegramofficial site
- TheStar-Telegramofficial mobile site
- "2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation"(PDF).Burrelles Luce.March 31, 2007.RetrievedMay 29,2007.
- "McClatchy Newspapers: Fort Worth Star-Telegram".McClatchy Company.RetrievedOctober 23,2006.
- Fort Worth Star-TelegramCollectionfinding aidatUniversity of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collectionsvia Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO)
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- Fort Worth, Texas
- Daily newspapers published in Texas
- Newspapers published in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
- McClatchy publications
- Pulitzer Prize-winning newspapers
- Newspapers established in 1906
- Pulitzer Prize for Public Service winners
- Former subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company
- 1906 establishments in Texas