Since taking over the American-Statesman in 2019, Gannett has steadily slashed staffing and budgets. Sensing opportunity, new media players are expanding into the market.
The Pflugerville-based chain of local newspapers has somehow managed to thrive even as its industry struggles to survive.
When Jordy Jordan opened the second location of Big D BBQ in the old Midlothian Mirror office, he wanted to pay homage to its controversial leader Penn Jones Jr.
After the ‘Del Rio News-Herald’ shuttered last year, Frank Lopez Jr., who broadcasts as “US Border Patriot,” found a national audience.
Small-town papers often serve as bearers of civic pride. But the former owners of Marfa’s Big Bend Sentinel and Presidio’s International learned long ago that writing the news meant looking out for their neighbors.
A company with a reputation for downsizing newspapers takes over Texas's capital city publication.
Brann becomes a casualty in his own war with the Baptists. Texas Collection of Baylor University“In the year of our Lord, 1891, I became pregnant with an idea. Being at the time chief editorial writer on the Houston Post, I felt dreadfully mortified, as nothing
If you live in Texas and saw a newspaper Saturday, you know what happened ...
For decades, the state’s big urban newspapers helped bind together the inhabitants of our major cities. Now those papers are threatened by a rapidly evolving (some might say collapsing) business model. Is there hope for daily journalism in Texas?
Picking up a Houston Chronicle story, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram printed the name of Chron reporter Yang Wang as "Yank Wang." She took it in good stride.
The billionaire picked up the Waco Tribune-Herald for an undisclosed sum on Friday.
A representative for Berkshire Hathaway announced the purchase to newsroom employees Tuesday.
The imprisoned polygamist leader continues to spread his apocalyptic message, spending tens of thousands of dollars on large ads in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Tennessean.
Author Gregory Curtis talks about Paris, impressions, and the Venus de Milo.
Why are small-town Texas newspapers thriving? Because unlike big-city dailies, they know their readers, and they give them what they want.
The Texas Observer could be on its last legs (again).
Obituaries are a grave matter, of course. But they can also be funny, insightful, and poetic, which is why I’m so obsessed with them.
Reading the Arlington newspaper war.
The only surprise about the closing of Houston’s oldest papers was that it took so long.
Dateline Moscow: From Red Square to yellow journalism?
The Dallas Times Herald, 1879-1991, R.I.P.
FYI: The Houston Post’s new society sleuth has great connections, a phone in her purse, and the complete attention of Houston’s haut monde.
When newspaper entrepreneur William Dean Singleton bought the ailing ‘Dallas Times Herald,’ people thought he was crazy. When he bought the ‘Houston Post,’ they were sure of it.
Before the Dallas newspaper war, the Herald was full of character—or was it characters?
As an heir to the Dallas Morning News, Robert Decherd has vindicated his father’s name, waged and won a newspaper war, and emerged as the new leader of the Dealey dynasty.
Life after the oil bust is fair-to-Midland; bad News, hard Times in Laredo; I hear a timpani; a coach who believes winning is everything.
Oveta Culp Hobby has gone from a country town to a position of power and wealth. What she hasn’t done will also be her legacy.
One Dallas paper clings tightly to tradition while the other, with a new editor, looks for something to cling to of its own.
Choosing the best features of Texas newspapers is a thankless job, hard on the spirit, and difficult for all the wrong reasons.
