Fort Worth Star-Telegram

The front page of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	The McClatchy Company
Publisher	Gary Wortel
Editor	Jim Witt
Founded	1906 (as Fort Worth Star)
Headquarters	400 West Seventh Street Fort Worth, Texas 76102 US
Circulation	188,593 daily 297,976 Sunday[1]
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. Its area of domination is checked by its main rival, The Dallas Morning News, which is published in the eastern half of 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.^[2]

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.^[3]

Pulitzer prizes

• 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

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.

See also

• Dallas-Fort Worth portal
• Journalism portal

References

1. "Total Circ for US Newspapers". Alliance for Audited Media. Retrieved 2013-06-09.
2. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utarl/00128/arl-00128.html
3. The McClatchy Company - Newspaper Profiles

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!". Fort Worth, Texas. Fort Worth.

External links

• The Star-Telegram official site
• The Star-Telegram official mobile site
• "2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation" (PDF). BurrellesLuce. 2007-03-31. Retrieved 2007-05-29.
• McClatchy Company, The. "McClatchy Newspapers: Fort Worth Star-Telegram". Retrieved 2006-10-23.