Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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 808 Throckmorton St.
Fort Worth , Texas 76102
US
Circulation 43,342 (as of 2023) [3]
ISSN 0889-0013
Website www .star-telegram .com Edit this at Wikidata

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]

History [ edit ]

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, [ 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]

Market [ edit ]

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. [7]

Pulitzer prizes [ edit ]

Online presence [ edit ]

The Star-Telegram is the nation's oldest continuously operating online newspaper . [8] [ 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 the Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award for General Excellence, Class IV. [9]

See also [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "Our Markets" . McClatchy Company . Archived from the original on April 10, 2017 . Retrieved March 26, 2017 .
  2. ^ "Star-Telegram editor promoted2018" .
  3. ^ "2023 Texas Newspaper Directory" . Texas Press Association . Archived from the original on May 3, 2023 . Retrieved May 3, 2023 .
  4. ^ "McClatchy | Markets" . November 3, 2021. Archived from the original on November 3, 2021 . Retrieved April 12, 2023 .
  5. ^ "Louis J. Wortham Helped Star-Telegram Take Root" . Fort Worth Star-Telegram . October 30, 1949. p. 407 . Retrieved February 24, 2023 – via Newspapers.com .
  6. ^ "Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection: A Guide" . University of Texas Library . Archived from the original on September 11, 2017 . Retrieved May 1, 2018 .
  7. ^ "The McClatchy Company - Newspaper Profiles" . McClatchy Company . Archived from the original on November 9, 2006 . Retrieved May 1, 2018 .
  8. ^ Outing, Steve (August 28, 1995). "Oldest Newspaper BBS Makes Transition to the Web ? Editor & Publisher" . Editor & Publisher . Retrieved March 26, 2019 .
  9. ^ "Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards: 2006 Winners and Finalists" . University of Missouri. October 24, 2006 . Retrieved December 25, 2018 .

Further reading [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

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