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The ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'' is an American daily
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Fort Worth Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Tarrant County, Texas, Tarrant County, covering nearly into Denton County, Texas, Denton, Johnson County, Texas, Johnson, Parker County, Texas, Parker, and Wise County, Te ...
and Tarrant County, the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex. It is owned by
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History

In May 1905, Amon G. Carter accepted a job as an advertising space salesman for the new newspaper The ''Fort Worth Star''. She printed her first newspaper on February 1, 1906, with Carter as the advertising manager, and Louis J. Wortham as its first editor. The Financier and President of the Fort Worth Star was Colonel Paul Waples, head of the Waples Platter Company and instrumental in nearly all of early Fort Worth institutions. The ''Star'' lost money, and was in danger of going bankrupt when Carter, and Wortham went to Waples. He cut a check for the additional funds and purchased his newspaper's main competition, the ''Fort Worth Telegram''. In November 1908, the ''Star'' purchased the ''Telegram'' for $100,000, and the two newspapers combined on January 1, 1909, into the ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram''. Paul Waples was the President of the Star Telegram publishing company and Chairman of the Board when he was tragically killed in an Interurban accident at his estate in Arlington Nov 16, 1916. Amon Carter and Louis Wortham were pall bearers Paul Waples, who left a significant legacy which is notated on a Plaque dedicated to his memory at the Star Telegram building in Fort Worth. Carter took the ball and From 1923 until after World War II, the ''Star-Telegram'' was distributed over one of the largest circulation areas of any newspaper in the
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, serving not just Fort Worth, but also
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, and western
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. The newspaper created WBAP in 1922 and Texas' first television station, WBAP-TV, in 1948. In August 2024, the newspaper announced it would reduce its number of weekly print editions to three a week: Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.


Market

The ''Star-Telegram's'' circulation area is the Fort Worth/Arlington metro area (four counties) and 14 surrounding counties. The newspaper's primary market is the four-county Fort Worth/Arlington metro area, as well as the Dallas and Fort Worth suburb of Grand Prairie. The Fort Worth/Arlington metro area is the western part of the fourth-largest U.S. metropolitan area, the Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington combined statistical area. Fort Worth/Arlington ranks 29th most populous as a metro area.


Pulitzer prizes

*1981 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography: Larry C. Price for "his photographs from Liberia". *1985 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service: Mark Thompson "for reporting which revealed that nearly 250 U.S. servicemen had lost their lives as a result of a design problem in helicopters built by Bell Helicopter—a revelation which ultimately led the Army to ground almost 600 Huey helicopters pending their modification".


Online presence

The ''Star-Telegram'' is the nation's oldest continuously operating
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StarText StarText was an online ASCII-based computer service run by the ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'' and the Tandy Corporation and marketed in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex newspaper circulation area from May 3, 1982 until March 3, 1997. Its name was ...
, an ASCII-based service, was started in 1982 and eventually integrated into the paper's current website, star-telegram.com.


Awards

The newspaper's "Titletown, TX" video series earned three 2017 Lone Star Emmys, the first in ''Star-Telegram'' history, and an award for excellence and innovation in visual storytelling from the 2017 Online Journalism Awards. In 2006, the ''Star-Telegram'' won the Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award for General Excellence, Class IV.


See also

* List of newspapers in Texas *


References


Further reading

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External links


The ''Star-Telegram'' official site

The ''Star-Telegram'' official mobile site
* * * {{PulitzerPrize PublicService 1976–2000 Fort Worth, Texas Daily newspapers published in Texas Newspapers published in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex McClatchy publications Pulitzer Prize–winning newspapers Newspapers established in 1906 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service winners 1906 establishments in Texas