The ''Amarillo Globe-News'' is a daily

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Amarillo, Texas Amarillo ( ; Spanish language, Spanish for "yellow") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Potter County, Texas, Potter County, though most of the southern half of the city extends into Randall County, Texas, Randall County ...

, owned by

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. The newspaper is based at downtown's FirstBank Southwest Tower, but is printed at a facility in

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.Tim Howsare, "", ''Amarillo Globe-News'', September 16, 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-10.

History

The current-day ''Globe-News'' is a combination of several newspapers previously published in Amarillo. One began on November 4, 1909, as a

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publication by the

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Dr. Joseph Elbert Nunn (1851 – 1938). In 1916, Nunn turned the ''Amarillo Daily News'' into a general newspaper. Nunn also owned an electric company, and heavily invested in the

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company. He served on the boards of the Wayland Baptist College (now

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) in

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, then at Texas Technological College (now

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). He went on to

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, with the Goodnight Baptist College in the now

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of Goodnight in Armstrong County. The college and town were named for the legendary Texas Panhandle rancher

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. In 1926, Eugene A. Howe and Wilbur Clayton Hawk bought the ''Amarillo Daily News'' and merged it with their ''Globe'' newspaper to form the ''Amarillo Globe-News'' Publishing Company. The ''Amarillo Times'' started on December 15, 1937, as an afternoon

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. On December 2, 1951, the ''Globe-News'' and ''Times'' were merged into one company with the majority of the stock owned by the ''Times

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family, being published by Samuel Benjamin Whittenburg (1914 – 1992). ''The Daily News'' continued as the morning newspaper, while the ''Globe-News'' and ''Times'' were merged into the afternoon ''Globe-Times''. The ''Amarillo Globe-Times'' won the

1961 Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes for 1961 are: Journalism awards *Public Service: ** The '' Amarillo Globe-Times'', for "exposing a breakdown in local law enforcement with resultant punitive action that swept lax officials from their posts and brought about th ...

for

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for exposing government corruption in

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and Randall counties. The organization noted the paper "expos da breakdown in local law enforcement with resultant punitive action that swept lax officials from their posts and brought about the election of a reform slate." The company also purchased

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s WDAG and KGRS (merging them to form KGNC in 1935), and

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television station KGNC-TV (now KAMR) in 1953. On September 1, 1972, Morris Communications bought the ''Globe-News'' from the Whittenburg family. In 2001, the ''Daily News'' and ''Globe-Times'' merged into one morning edition, the ''Globe-News''. In 2017,

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sold its newspapers to

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. The ''Globe-News'' moved in September 2018 from the building it occupied since 1949 on South Harrison Street on the west side of downtown. The newspaper chose to move to the FirstBank Southwest Tower on Tyler Street a few blocks away. Effective July 10, 2023, the paper transitioned from carrier delivery to delivery via the U.S. Postal Service.

Journalists

Journalists who got their start at the Amarillo Globe-News include ''

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'' correspondent

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and columnist

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References

External links

* *. Accessed January 20, 2006 {{PulitzerPrize PublicService 1951–1975 Mass media in Amarillo, Texas Daily newspapers published in Texas Gannett publications Pulitzer Prize–winning newspapers 1909 establishments in Texas Pulitzer Prize for Public Service winners Newspapers established in 1909