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The Dallas Morning News
An example of a cover from The Dallas Morning News in 2010.
The April 24, 2010 front page of
The Dallas Morning News
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)A. H. Belo Corporation
PublisherJames M. Moroney III
EditorRobert W. Mong, Jr.
Founded1885
Headquarters508 Young Street
Dallas, Texas 75202
United States
Circulation405,349 Daily
702,848 Sunday[1]
Websitewww.DallasNews.com

The Dallas Morning News is the major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas (USA) area, with a circulation of 264,459 subscribers, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported in September 2010. It was founded on October 1, 1885, by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the Galveston Daily News, of Galveston, Texas.[2][3][4]

Today it has one of the 20 largest paid circulations in the United States. Throughout the 1990s and as recently as 2010, the DMN has won numerous Pulitzers for both reporting and photography, George Polk Awards for education reporting and regional reporting, and an Overseas Press Club award for photography. The company has its headquarters in Downtown Dallas.[5]

Dominant Dallas newspaper

In late 1991, the DMN became the lone major newspaper in the Dallas market, when its rival the Dallas Times Herald was closed after several years of hard-fought circulation wars between the two papers, especially over the then-burgeoning classified advertising market. In July 1986, the Times Herald was purchased by a fledgling newspaper impresario, the controversial William Dean Singleton, owner of MediaNews Group. After 18 months of tepid efforts to turn the paper around, Singleton sold it to an associate. On 8 December 1991, Belo bought the Times Herald for $55 million, closing the paper the next day.

The Dallas Morning News distribution center in Plano, TX.

The fact that Singleton had begun his newspaper career at the Morning News in the 1970s fueled speculation DMN had been behind the entire sale and closure of their rival paper. While the News obviously stood to benefit, no evidence was ever proffered of behavior outside the bounds of the admittedly rough newspaper trade.

It was not the first time the Belo family had bought (and closed) a paper named The Herald in Dallas.

[In]...1879 Alfred H. Belo was investigating the possibility of establishing a sister paper in rapidly developing North Texas. When Belo's efforts to purchase the Herald [an extant paper in Dallas] failed, he sent George Bannerman Dealey to launch a new paper, the Morning News, which began publication on October 1, 1885. From the outset the Morning News enjoyed the double advantage of strong financial support and an accumulation of journalistic experience, and within a month and a half had absorbed its older rival.[6][7]

Circulation controversy

The Dallas Morning News has been accused of inflating its circulation numbers to keep advertiser revenue high.[citation needed] In the mid-1980s, the paper was sued by the rival Times Herald, charging that the News was overstating circulation increases. In 2004, long after the Times Herald had ceased printing, The Dallas Morning News admitted it had indeed underreported circulation decreases, and had overstated Sunday circulation by 11.9% and daily circulation by 5.1%.

The Morning News promised to pay advertisers US$23 million in restitution. The circulation problems worsened parent company Belo's financial condition. In late 2004, Belo Corporation laid off 250 workers, including 150 at the Morning News. Two years later, The News offered a voluntary severance package which was taken by more than 100 staffers. The newspaper has continued to lay off employees, most recently in October 2008 and April 2009.

In a April 2012 report issued by the Audit Bureau of Circulations The Dallas Morning News had daily circulation of 405,349. This figure represts a 0.10 percent gain in total digital and print ciculation compared with the same period the year prior.The News, once among the top 10 newspapers in America, is now the country's 11th largest newspaper, according to the Bureau of Circulations.

Awards

Pulitzer Prizes

George Polk Awards

  • 1990: Gayle Reaves, David Hanners, and David McLemore for regional reporting
  • 1994: Olive Talley for education reporting

Overseas Press Club Awards

  • 2001: Cheryl Diaz Meyer for photographic reporting from abroad

Editorial staff

  • James M. Moroney III; Publisher and Chief Executive Officer
  • Robert W. Mong, Jr.; Editor
  • George Rodrigue; Vice President, Managing Editor
  • Keven Ann Willey; Vice President, Editorial Page Editor

Neighborsgo

In April 2005, The Dallas Morning News launched four editions of a weekly community newspaper called Neighbors. n April 2007, the publication was rebranded as neighborsgo and a website, neighborsgo.com, was launched. As of August 2011, neighborsgo publishes 11 weekly print editions and is distributed to more than 340,000 households in the Dallas area.

Prices

The News prices are: $1 Daily, $3 Sunday/Thanksgiving Day.

References

  1. ^ \http://accessabc.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/the-top-u-s-newspapers-for-march-2012/
  2. ^ Galveston Daily News: Daily News Firsts
  3. ^ Handbook of Texas: Galveston News
  4. ^ Galveston Daily News: History of the Daily News
  5. ^ "Contact Us." The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved on November 21, 2009.
  6. ^ Alfred H. Belo, Texas Handbook On-Line
  7. ^ "Dallas Morning News buys out rival paper", Texas Day by Day, 3 Dec 1885

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