The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is an American daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and Tarrant County, the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex. It is owned by The McClatchy Company.[4]
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 The front page of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 30, 2024 | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | The McClatchy Company[1] |
| Publisher | Steve Coffman |
| Editor | Steve Coffman[2] |
| Founded | 1906 (as Fort Worth Star) |
| Political alignment | Conservative |
| Headquarters | Fort Worth, Texas US |
| Circulation | 43,342 (as of 2023)[3] |
| ISSN | 0889-0013 |
| Website | www |
History
editIn 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,[citation needed] and Louis J. Wortham as its first editor.[5]
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.[6]
In August 2024, the newspaper announced it would reduce its number of weekly print editions to three a week: Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.[7]
Market
editThe 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.[8]
Pulitzer prizes
edit- 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography: Larry C. Price for "his photographs from Liberia".
- 1985 Pulitzer 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 by Bell Helicopter—a revelation which ultimately led the Army to ground almost 600 Huey helicopters pending their modification".
Online presence
editThe Star-Telegram is the nation's oldest continuously operating online 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
editThe 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 the Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award for General Excellence, Class IV.[10]
See also
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References
edit- ^ "Our Markets". McClatchy Company. Archived from the original on April 10, 2017. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
- ^ "Star-Telegram editor promoted2018".
- ^ "2023 Texas Newspaper Directory". Texas Press Association. Archived from the original on May 3, 2023. Retrieved May 3, 2023.
- ^ "McClatchy | Markets". November 3, 2021. Archived from the original on November 3, 2021. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
- ^ "Louis J. Wortham Helped Star-Telegram Take Root". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. October 30, 1949. p. 407. Retrieved February 24, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection: A Guide". University of Texas Library. Archived from the original on September 11, 2017. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
- ^ Davisson, Matthew (August 2, 2024). "Fort Worth Star-Telegram to scale back print publication to 3 days a week". KTVT. Retrieved August 2, 2024.
- ^ "The McClatchy Company - Newspaper Profiles". McClatchy Company. Archived from the original on November 9, 2006. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
- ^ Outing, Steve (August 28, 1995). "Oldest Newspaper BBS Makes Transition to the Web – Editor & Publisher". Editor & Publisher. Retrieved March 26, 2019.
- ^ "Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards: 2006 Winners and Finalists". University of Missouri. October 24, 2006. Retrieved December 25, 2018.
Further reading
edit- 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.
External links
edit- 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.
- Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection finding aid at University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections via Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO)