dallas morning news

Dallas, Texas 75202

United States Circulation 368,313 Daily

520,215 Sunday[1] Website: DallasNews.com

The Dallas Morning News is the major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas (USA) area, with a circulation of around a half-million subscribers. Today it has one of the 20 largest paid circulations in the United States. Throughout the 1990s and as recently as 2005, 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 paper also publishes Quick, a free weekly with abbreviated news primarily catering to 20- to 30-year-olds, created partly in response to lagging circulation and readership numbers, as it hoped to increase overall readership by converting Quick readers into Morning News readers.

A. H. Belo Corporation owns the papers, both of which are headquartered in downtown Dallas. Contents [hide] 1 Dominant Dallas newspaper 2 Circulation controversy 3 Awards 3.1 Pulitzer Prizes 3.2 George Polk Awards 3.3 Overseas Press Club Awards 4 Editorial staff 5 References 6 External links //

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 of 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 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.[2] [3]

Circulation controversy

The Dallas Morning News has been accused