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The ''Dallas Times Herald'', founded in 1888 by a merger of the '' Dallas Times'' and the '' Dallas Herald'', was once one of two major daily
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s serving the
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( USA) area. It won three
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, all for photography, and two
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, for local and regional reporting. As an afternoon publication for most of its 102 years,Handbook of Texas Online
"Dallas ''Times Herald'',"
Retrieved January 7, 2009.
its demise was hastened by the shift of newspaper reading habits to morning papers, the reliance on television for late-breaking news, as well as the loss of an antitrust lawsuit against crosstown rival ''
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'' after the latter's parent company bought the rights to 26 Universal Press Syndicate features that previously had been running in the ''Times Herald''.
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bought the ''Times Herald'' from the
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in 1986; Times Mirror had owned the paper since 1969. MediaNews sold the paper in 1988 to a company formed by John Buzzetta, a former partner of MediaNews Group's founder, Dean Singleton. Roy E. Bode, who previously worked as Washington Bureau Chief of the paper and later as its associate editor, became its last editor-in-chief. Despite financial pressures, the ''Times Herald'' continued to operate its own news bureaus in Washington, Austin, Houston, San Antonio and other Texas cities, and did not lay off journalists during its final years. It also produced Pulitzer finalists and won other national journalism honors. According to Burl Osborne, the former publisher of the ''Morning News'', the ''Times Herald'' shut down on December 8, 1991. The next day,
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, owner of the ''Morning News'', bought the ''Times Herald'' assets for $55 million and sold the physical equipment to a variety of buyers to disperse the assets and thus prevent any other entity from easily re-establishing a competitive newspaper in Dallas.
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copies of the ''Dallas Times Herald'' can be found in the
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archival collection. The collection includes December 1855 – December 1991, with a gap from January through October 1886.


Awards


Pulitzer Prizes

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1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...
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Robert H. Jackson for a photo of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald *
1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ...
Feature Photography — Erwin "Skeeter" Hagler for a photo series on Texas cowboys *
1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...
Feature Photography — James B. Dickman for photos of life and death in
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*1978 — Local Reporting — For reporting on Mexican-Americans killed by Texas lawmen *1982 — Regional Reporting — Jim Henderson for his series, "Racism in the South"


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*1982 — General Excellence


Notable former staff

* Jay Dickman, photojournalist and winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography * Irwin “Skeeter” Hagler, photojournalist and winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography * Skip Bayless, sports columnist and author, current Fox Sports personality * John Bloom, syndicated film critic (a.k.a. Joe Bob Briggs), writer, and actor (''
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'') * Hector Cantu, co-creator, Baldo comic strip * Shelby Coffey III, editor and vice president * Lee Cullum, NPR and PBS commentator, columnist, and producer and host for KERA Television * Rodger Dean Duncan, bestselling author, ''Forbes'' magazine contributor * Najlah Feanny, contract photographer for ''
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'' *Mike Goldman, managing editor o
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* A. C. Greene, journalist, author, television commentator, historian; editorial page editor at time of John F. Kennedy Assassination After sale of ''Times Herald'' and KRLD-TV to ''
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'', became a major stockholder * Paul Hagen, baseball writer and recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award from the
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* Ray F. Herndon, UPI Vietnam War photojournalist and bureau chief, a finalist for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting * Molly Ivins, syndicated columnist and author * Robert H. Jackson (photographer) best known for his photo of Ruby shooting Oswald * Dan Jenkins, sportswriter and author * Tom Johnson, publisher * Iris Krasnow, best-selling author specializing in relationships and personal growth *
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, author and anchor of '' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer'' on
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; was a ''Times Herald'' reporter at the time of John F. Kennedy assassination * Margaret Mayer, who as chief of the Dallas Times-Herald's Washington bureau became one of the first women to hold such a position. * Scott Monserud, sports editor, Denver Post * Michael Phillips, theater critic, later theater critic for ''Los Angeles Times'' and ''
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''; current Tribune film critic * Mark Potok, reporter, spokesperson,
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* Steven Reddicliffe, television critic * Don Safran, film critic, also a publicist for
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* Gaylord Shaw, managing editor, won 1978 Pulitzer Prize with ''Los Angeles Times'' * Blackie Sherrod, award-winning sports columnist and commentator, author of several sportsbooks * Bud Shrake, sportswriter, screenwriter, and author *Mickey Spagnola, writer for DallasCowboys.com * Lisa Taylor, entertainment writer and editor * Bascom N. Timmons, later opened a news bureau in Washington to serve newspapers in several states * Tara Weingarten, automotive journalist, Newsweek writer, founder of VroomGirls * Robert Wilonsky, entertainment reporter * Brian Center, paper boy


Further reading

* Cox, Patrick. ''The First Texas News Barons''. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. . * * * Rogers, John William. ''The Lusty Texans of Dallas'', ch. XV. New York: Dutton, 1960. * Schutze, Jim (February 1992)
"It Wasn't Murder. Was It Suicide? What Really Killed the Herald,"
''D Magazine''. (Accessed Jan. 7, 2009, by free search of online archive.) *''The WPA Dallas Guide and History''. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1992. .


In other media

* Report from August 1984 detailing the newspaper battle between the ''Dallas Times Herald'' and ''
Dallas Morning News ''The Dallas Morning News'' is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average print circulation in 2022 of 65,369. It was founded on October 1, 1885, by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the ' ...
'' which was at full throttle during the Republican National Convention. * Vivian Castleberry became the first female editor of the Dallas Times Herald in 1957. * Narrated by Brad Sham, May 2013 * A conversation with ''Dallas Times Herald'' photographers William Allen, Eamon Kennedy, Bob Jackson, and Darryl Heikes, who covered President Kennedy's trip to Fort Worth and Dallas, his assassination, and the aftermath. At the Sixth Floor Museum on .


References


External links


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Front cover of final edition of the ''Dallas Times Herald''Dallas Public Library, Dallas History and Archives Newspaper Holdings


Archived TV commercials


''Times Herald'' classified ad service, October 1978

''Times Herald'' promotion of new morning edition, 1982
with Mason Adams
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with Dabney Coleman (voiced by
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) Defunct newspapers of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex Pulitzer Prize–winning newspapers