A.M. Journal Express
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| type = Daily newspaper (free)
| foundation = 2003
| owners = American Consolidated Media
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A.M. Journal Express was a short-lived free daily newspaper in Dallas, Texas, owned by American Consolidated Media. In its six-month life span, it lost under $5 million, according to company chairman Jeremy Halbreich.{{Citation needed|date=January 2008}} The paper started on November 12, 2003, and closed on April 30, 2004. When plans for the A.M. Journal Express were revealed in September 2003, The Dallas Morning News publisher A. H. Belo took action and designed their own free daily newspaper, called Quick, which hit the streets two weeks earlier than the Journal Express.{{cite news |first=Robert |last=Wilonsky |authorlink=Robert Wilonsky |work=Unfair Park |publisher=Dallas Observer |location=Dallas, TX |title=Dallas News Publisher Jim Moroney Addresses Decision to Shutter Quick, Rumors of Layoffs |url=http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2011/07/moroney.php |date=July 27, 2011 |accessdate=July 28, 2011}}
According to ACM, The Dallas Morning News took hostile actions to ensure the failure of the A.M. Journal Express, including confrontations with A.M. Journal distributors and the threatening of A.M. Journal{{'s}} advertisers.{{cite news |work=Dallas Business Journal |title=ACM halts publication of A.M. Journal |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2004/05/03/daily3.html |date=May 3, 2004 |accessdate=July 28, 2011}}
In January 2007, American Consolidated Media was acquired by Macquarie Media Group for $80 million.[http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2007/01/22/daily42.html Macquarie to buy Dallas publishing company]