''The Dallas Morning News'' is a daily

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serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of

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, 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 ''

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'', of

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. Historically, and to the present day, it is the most prominent newspaper in Dallas. Throughout the 1990s and as recently as 2010, the paper has won nine

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s for reporting and

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for education reporting and regional reporting, and an

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award for photography. Its headquarters is in

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History

Facade of Dallas Morning News office in Dallas

''The Dallas Morning News'' was founded in 1885 as a spin-off of the ''

'' by Alfred Horatio Belo. In 1926, the Belo family sold a majority interest in the paper to its longtime publisher,

George Dealey George Bannerman Dealey (September 18, 1859 – February 26, 1946) was a Dallas, Texas, businessman. Dealey was the long-time publisher of ''The Dallas Morning News'' and owner of the A. H. Belo Corporation. A plaza in Dallas is named in h ...

. By the 1920s, ''The Dallas Morning News'' had grown larger than the ''Galveston Daily News'' and had become a progressive force in Dallas and Texas.

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, who saved ''The New York Times'' from bankruptcy in 1896 and made the newspaper into one of the country's most respected, said in 1924 that he had been strongly influenced by ''The Dallas Morning News''. During the 1920s, when the

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was a powerful force in Dallas, ''The Dallas Morning News'' pushed back against the KKK with its news coverage and editorials. In turn, the KKK, which had a membership that included one in three eligible Dallas men, threatened to boycott the newspaper. In 1904, ''The Dallas Morning News'' began publishing the ''

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'', which had previously been published intermittently during the 1800s by the ''Galveston Daily News''. After over a century of publishing by the ''Morning News'', the ''Almanac'''s assets were given to the

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in May 2008. By the late 1940s, the ''Morning News'' had built and opened a new office, newsroom, and printing plant at Houston and Young Streets on the southwest side of

. A notable part of the facade above the front doors includes a quote etched in the stony exterior: ::::::

BUILD THE NEWS UPON
THE ROCK OF TRUTH
AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
CONDUCT IT ALWAYS
UPON THE LINES OF
FAIRNESS AND INTEGRITY
ACKNOWLEDGE THE RIGHT
OF THE PEOPLE TO GET
FROM THE NEWSPAPER
BOTH SIDES OF EVERY
IMPORTANT QUESTION
G. B. DEALEY

The complex at 508 Young Street would house all or part of the ''Morning News'' operations for the next six decades. In late 1991, ''The Dallas Morning News'' became the lone major newspaper in the Dallas market when the ''

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'' was closed after several years of circulation wars between the two papers, especially over the then-burgeoning classified advertising market. In July 1986, the ''Times Herald'' was purchased by

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, owner of

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. After 18 months of efforts to turn the paper around, Singleton sold it to an associate. On December 8, 1991,

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bought the ''Times Herald'' for $55 million, closing the paper the next day. It was not the first time the Belo family had bought and closed a paper named '' The Herald'' in Dallas. Aldianewspaperlogo

In 2003, ''The Dallas Morning News'' launched a

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newspaper called '' Al Día'' . Initially ''Al Día'' came with a purchase price, but it was later made available free. It was published twice a week, on Wednesday and Saturday. Publication ceased in June 2023. Between 2003 and 2011, a tabloid-sized publication called ''

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'' was published by ''The Dallas Morning News'', which initially focused on general news in a quick-read, digest form, but in later years covered mostly entertainment and lifestyle stories. In late 2013, ''The Dallas Morning News'' ended its longtime news-gathering collaboration with previously co-owned TV station

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. The newspaper entered into a new partnership with

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at that time. Dallas Morning News vending machine 2019

Historically, the ''Morning News opinion section has tilted conservative, mirroring Texas' drift to the Republican Party since the 1950s. However, on September 7, 2016, it endorsed

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for president, the first time it had recommended a

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for president since

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in 1940. This came a day after it ran a scathing editorial declaring Republican candidate

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"not qualified to serve as president." It was the first time the paper had refused to recommend a Republican since 1964. Then, ahead of the

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, the ''Morning News'' once again endorsed a Democratic candidate:

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, the challenger to incumbent Senator

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. In 2024, the ''Morning News'' endorsed

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and referenced Allred's

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and Cruz's divisiveness. In late 2016, ''The Dallas Morning News'' announced it would move away from its home of 68 years on Young Street to a much-smaller

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on Commerce Street previously used as the Dallas Public Library's downtown branch. Reasons given for the move included technology innovations and fewer staff, as well as printing presses no longer co-located with the newsroom and main offices. By December 2017, the move was completed. The former property was sold in October 2018 to a business partnership, which was looking into possible redevelopment opportunities for the complex, but in December 2018 the partnership backed out of the deal. Changes were announced in January 2019, which included layoffs and reducing the paper's Business section to one separate section per week, on Sundays; the remainder of the week, Business coverage was placed in the paper's Metro section. A total of 43 employees were affected by the move. In late February 2019, several printing agreements were not renewed at the ''Morning News''' suburban printing plant, and 92 positions were affected by the change there. Publications that had to find a different printing partner included the ''

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'' and ''

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''.

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, the paper's owner, announced on Sept. 13, 2023, it would offer buyouts eliminating up to 40 jobs, a 6% reduction in staff count. Buyouts would be offered starting Oct. 16. In May 2024, the company announced it would move its Plano printing operation, built in 1980, to a smaller facility in Carrollton. This would result in the elimination of 85 jobs, a 60% staff reduction. The changes were expected to save the company $5 million annually. The News reported in December 2024 it had agreed to sell the Plano location for $43.5 million. A new printing press will be purchased for the new site and should be ready in 2025.

Awards

Pulitzer Prizes

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal en ...

: National Reporting *

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1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

: Feature Photography *

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

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1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

: Spot News Photography *

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

: International Reporting *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

: Breaking News Photography *

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

: Breaking News Photography *

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

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George Polk Awards

* 1990: Gayle Reaves, David Hanners, and David McLemore for regional reporting * 1994: Olive Talley for education reporting

Overseas Press Club Awards

* 2001: Cheryl Diaz Meyer for photographic reporting from abroad

References

External links

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Sports Day DFW
further sports news coverage
Guidelive
news/listings of local entertainment/events *
Al Día
' Spanish-language newspaper
Archive of ''The Dallas Morning News'' issues (1885–1984)
at NewsBank *
Behind the Pages"
look behind the scenes of the paper's operation
Video tour
of the ''Morning News'' office space *
Text of ''The Dallas Morning News'' historical marker
from Texas Historic Sites Atlas (

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