''The Monitor'' is a

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McAllen, Texas McAllen is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Hidalgo County. It is located at the southern tip of the state in the Rio Grande Valley, on the Mexican border. The city limits extend south to the Rio Grande, acros ...

that covers Starr and Hidalgo counties. It was owned by

Freedom Communications Freedom Communications, Inc. was an American media conglomerate that operated daily and weekly newspapers, websites and mobile applications and television stations, as well as ''Coast Magazine'' and other specialty publications. Headquartered at ...

until 2012, when Freedom papers in Texas were sold to AIM Media Texas. ''The Monitors Spanish-language sister paper, '' La Frontera'', shut down in 2009. It shares content with the '' Valley Morning Star'' and ''

The Brownsville Herald ''The Brownsville Herald'' is a newspaper based in Brownsville, Texas, United States, circulating in the Cameron County area. History Jesse O. Wheeler, a newspaperman from Victoria, purchased Brownsville's ''Cosmopolitan'' newspaper in 1892 an ...

.'' Both are also owned by AIM Media Texas. Both its former publisher, M. Olaf Frandsen, and its former editor-in-chief, Steve Fagan, have worked at Pulitzer-winning newspapers. Frandsen was editor-in-chief of the '' Odessa American'' in 1988 when the paper won the Pulitzer for spot news photography. Frandsen now is editor and publisher of the Salina, KS, ''Journal'', a member of Harris Enterprises Inc. In 2017 ''The Monitor'' partnered with ''

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'' to report on the issues of climate change in McAllen and Reynosa. The project was funded by a grant from The Center for Cooperative Media. In 2021 ''The Monitor'' merged online with the Valley Morning Star and ''The Brownsville Herald''.

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External links

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Official ''The Monitor'' mobile site
Daily newspapers published in Texas Hidalgo County, Texas Mass media in McAllen, Texas Freedom Communications 1909 establishments in Texas Companies based in McAllen {{Texas-newspaper-stub Newspapers established in 1909