''San Angelo Standard-Times'' is a daily newspaper based in

San Angelo, Texas San Angelo ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Tom Green County, Texas, United States. Its location is in the Concho Valley, a region of West Texas between the Permian Basin (North America), Permian Basin to the northwest, Chihuahuan Desert ...

, United States that was established in 1884. It is owned by

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History

The newspaper was established in 1884 by J. G. Murphy, the city's second mayor. Mr. Murphy sold the paper in the 1920s to

Houston Harte Robert William Houston Harte was a newspaperman who co-founded Harte-Hanks Communications. Harte was born January 12, 1893, in Knob Noster, Missouri. After a year at the University of California, Harte returned to the University of Missouri, where ...

. In 1924, it became one of the two original flagships of the

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newspaper chain. The ''San Angelo Standard-Times'' building was constructed in 1951, providing 38,000 square feet on two floors. In 1984, a rehabilitation project added another 10,000 square feet. Scripps began operating the newspaper in 1997 after purchasing it from Harte-Hanks, and as of 2015, Scripps operated this newspaper through its subsidiary Journal Media Group. The newspaper and its reporters have won various journalism awards, including awards from the

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of Texas, presented in 2015.2014 Texas APME Awards List"
'' Midland Reporter-Telegram'' (March 30, 2015).

Alumni

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novelist

Elmer Kelton Elmer Kelton (April 29, 1926Kelton, Elmer (2007). - ''Sandhills Boy: The Winding Trail of a Texas Writer''. - New York, New York: Forge. - p.26. - . – August 22, 2009) was an American author, known for his Westerns. He was born in Andrews ...

began his career in 1948 as the farm-and-ranch editor at the ''Standard-Times''.

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* Gannett publications San Angelo, Texas Mass media in San Angelo, Texas Daily newspapers published in Texas 1884 establishments in Texas {{Texas-newspaper-stub Newspapers established in 1884