Amarillo Globe-News
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 The March 19, 2006 front page of the Amarillo Globe-News |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Morris Communications |
| Publisher | Les Simpson |
| Founded | 1909 (as The Amarillo Daily News) |
| Headquarters | Amarillo, TX United States |
| Official website | www.amarillo.com |
Amarillo Globe-News is a newspaper in Amarillo, Texas, owned by the Morris Communications Company.
The current day Globe-News is a combination of several newspapers published in Amarillo. One began on November 4, 1909, as a prohibition publication by Baptist deacon, Dr. Joseph Elbert Nunn (1851-1938). In 1916, Nunn turned the Amarillo Daily News into a general newspaper. Nunn also owned an electric oompany, was heavily invested in the telephone company, and served on the boards of then Wayland Baptist University (then College) in Plainview, Texas Tech University (then Texas Technological College) at Lubbock, and the defunct Goodnight Baptist College in the now ghost town of Goodnight in Armstrong County. The college and town were named for legendary Texas Panhandle rancher Charles Goodnight.[1]
In 1926, Eugene A. Howe and Wilbur Clayton Hawk bought the Amarillo Daily News and merged it with their Globe newspaper to form the Amarillo Globe-News Publishing Company.
The Amarillo Times started on December 15, 1937, as an afternoon tabloid. On December 2, 1951, the Globe-News and Times were merged into one company with the majority of the stock owned by the Times' Whittenburg family. The Daily News would continue as the morning newspaper, while the Globe-News and Times were merged into the afternoon Globe-Times. The Amarillo Globe-Times won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The Globe-News also purchased radio stations, WDAG and KRGS to form KGNC, and NBC station KGNC-TV (now KAMR). On September 1, 1972, Morris Communications acquired the Amarillo Globe-News.
In 2001, the Globe-News decided to merge their two newspapers into one morning edition.
Nelson Clyde, III, prominent publisher of the Tyler Morning Telegraph from 1990 until his death in 2007, worked at the Globe-News from 1966-1968.
[edit] Journalists
Journalists who got their start at the Amarillo Globe-News include Fox News Channel's Senior White House Correspondent Major Garrett and Dow Jones Newswires columnist Al Lewis.
[edit] References
- ^ Joseph Elbert Nunn exhibit at Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas
- "Amarillo Globe-News profile". Morris Communications. 2006-01-20. http://morriscomm.com/divisions/morris_publishing_group/daily_newspapers/amarillo.shtml.
- Amarillo, Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online. Accessed January 20, 2006
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