The ''Corpus Christi Caller-Times'' is the

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for

Corpus Christi, Texas Corpus Christi (; Ecclesiastical Latin: "''Body of Christ"'') is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and largest city of Nueces County, it also extends into Aransas, Kleberg, and San Patricio ...

History

There has been a newspaper in Corpus Christi for almost as long as there has been a town. In 1883, the ''Caller'' was started in a frame building at 310 North Chaparral, now the site of Green's Jewelers.

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was editor of the ''Caller'' 1907–1911, when it was an enterprise of the King Ranch; he sold his interest in it in 1929. Later, there was a newspaper called the ''Times''. Both were located on North Chaparral in 1920. In the late 1920s, the two were combined to become the ''Caller-Times''. The present building was erected in 1935 at 820 North Lower Broadway and has subsequently been remodeled and enlarged several times. The most recent addition was completed in 1994 when a new Goss Metroliner

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was installed in a $10 million expansion. Another milestone was reached in August 1995 – the Internet edition of ''Caller-Times'' was launched. The site was re-designed and renamed caller.com in 1998. Caller.com was redesigned and relaunched with a new platform in November 2001. The site remained mostly the same until May 2007 when it launched a new design and layout. On October 15, 1997, the paper itself, long owned by

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Communications, was taken over by the Scripps Howard group. In the early days, the paper cost just a few cents and until well after

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, was delivered on bicycles. In 1939 the ''Caller-Times'' employed 100 people. Currently, there are nearly 100 full and part-time employees working at the ''Caller-Times''.

Awards

The ''Caller-Times'' and Caller.com have consistently been recognized for quality. In 2001, ''Caller-Times'' was named Best Daily Newspaper by the Press Club of Dallas in a 5-state competition area. Staff also won 9 other "Katies." The ''Caller-Times'' has been chosen best newspaper in the 100,000 and under circulation category nine of the 13 years the category has been judged and was runner-up three of the other four years.

The newspaper in the news

The ''Caller-Times'' was the first source to report on U.S. Vice President

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's hunting accident. The accident took place in the early evening of Saturday, February 11, 2006. Katharine Armstrong, the owner of the ranch on which the accident took place, waited until the next morning to inform the ''Caller-Times''.

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* {{Gannett Mass media in Corpus Christi, Texas Gannett publications Daily newspapers published in Texas