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Dallas is a city Northeast Texas in United States on the Trinity River east of Fort Worth. It was founded by French settlers in 1841 and became a cotton market in the 1870s. Population: 1,210,000. The Dallas Morning News is the popular daily newspaper serving the Dallas , Texas (United States of A merica). The Dallas Morning News is the oldest newspaper in Texas. It is first published on 1 October 1885 with a circulation of around 5,000 subscribers. For the six months ending 2006, average paid circulation was 480,481 daily and 649,709 on Sunday, making it the 13th largest newspaper in terms of circulation in the United States. Throughout the 1990s , 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. It also publishes Quick ,
Dominant Dallas Paper
"DMN" became the lone major newspaper in the Dallas market in late 1991, 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-bourgeoning classified advertising market. In July of 1986 , the Times-Herald was purchased by a fledgling newspaper impresario, the now-controversial William Dean Singleton . After 18 months of tepid efforts to turn the paper around, Singleton sold it to an associate, and on 8 December 1991, Belo Corp bought the Times Herald for $55 million, closing the paper the next day.
The fact that Singleton had begun his newspaper career at the Morning News in the 1970s fueled speculation that they had been behind the entire sale and closure of their rival paper. While the News obviously stood to benefit, no evidence was ever proffered of behavior outside the bounds of the admittedly-rough newspaper trade.
Ironically, it was not the first time the Belo Corp had bought (and closed) a paper named The Herald in Dallas; according the Texas State Historical Association , in "...1879 Alfred H. Belo [...] was investigating the possibility of establishing a sister paper in rapidly developing North Texas. When Belo's efforts to purchase the Herald [an extant paper in Dallas] failed, he sent George Bannerman Dealey to launch a new paper, the Morning News, which began publication on October 1, 1885. From the outset the Morning News enjoyed the double advantage of strong financial support and an accumulation of journalistic experience, and within a month and a half had absorbed its older rival."
Circulation Woes
The Dallas Morning News has had an ongoing problem with its circulation numbers, being accused of inflating them to keep advertiser revenue high. In the mid-1980s, the paper was sued by the rival Times Herald , charging that the News was overstating circulation increases. In 2004 , long after the Times Herald had ceased printing; The Dallas Morning News admitted it had indeed underreported circulation decreases, overstating Sunday circulation by 11.9% and daily circulation by 5.1%. The Morning News promised to pay advertisers US$ 23 million in restitution. The circulation problems worsened parent company Belo's financial condition and in late 2004, Belo laid off 250 workers, including 150 at the Morning News.
Owner
Belo Corp
Publisher
James M. Moroney III
Editor
Robert W. Mong, Jr.
Founded
1885
Headquarters
508 Young St Dallas
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