Amarillo Globe-News
{{Short description|Daily newspaper in Amarillo, Texas}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Amarillo Globe-News
| image =
| caption = The March 19, 2006 front page of the
Amarillo Globe-News
| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Broadsheet
| foundation = 1909
(as The Amarillo Daily News)
| owners = Gannett
| headquarters = Amarillo, Texas
United States
| circulation = 4,935
| circulation_date = 2023
| editor =
| publisher =
| website = {{url|http://amarillo.com}}|
}}
The Amarillo Globe-News is a daily newspaper in Amarillo, Texas, owned by Gannett. The newspaper is based at downtown's FirstBank Southwest Tower, but is printed at a facility in Lubbock.Tim Howsare, "{{cite web| url = https://www.amarillo.com/news/20180916/globe-news-announces-move-to-new-building| title = Globe-News announces move to new building}}", Amarillo Globe-News, September 16, 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
History
The current-day Globe-News is a combination of several newspapers previously published in Amarillo. One began on November 4, 1909, as a prohibition publication by the 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 company, and heavily invested in the telephone company.{{which|date=October 2011}} He served on the boards of the Wayland Baptist College (now Wayland Baptist University) in Plainview, Texas, then at Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University).
He went on to Lubbock, Texas, with the Goodnight Baptist College in the now ghost town of Goodnight in Armstrong County. The college and town were named for the legendary Texas Panhandle rancher Charles Goodnight.Joseph Elbert Nunn exhibit at Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas
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 newspaper. On December 2, 1951, the Globe-News and Times were merged into one company with the majority of the stock owned by the Times' Roy Whittenburg family, being published by Samuel Benjamin Whittenburg (1914 – 1992). The Daily News continued 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 for exposing government corruption in Potter and Randall counties.{{cite web|access-date=2012-07-05|url= https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eea07|title=Amarillo News and Globe-Times|author=Kleiner, Diana J.}}{{Cite news |last=Erwin |first=Ray |date=May 6, 1961 |title=Amarillo Globe-Times Wins Public Service Pulitzer |language=English |work=Editor and Publisher |publisher=Duncan McIntosh |url=http://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1961-05-06_94 |access-date=2021-02-20}} The organization noted the paper "expos[ed] a breakdown in local law enforcement with resultant punitive action that swept lax officials from their posts and brought about the election of a reform slate."{{cite web| url = http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Public+Service| title = The Pulitzer Prizes}}
The company also purchased radio stations WDAG and KGRS (merging them to form KGNC in 1935),{{cite web| url = http://amarillo.com/stories/051897/first.html| title = Business @marillo Globe-News: WDAG made first broadcast with 10 watts of power 5/18/97}} and NBC television station KGNC-TV (now KAMR) in 1953.{{cite web| url = http://amarillo.com/stories/1999/10/27/fri_102799-18.shtml| title = Trial and error signal beginning of KGNC}}
On September 1, 1972, Morris Communications bought the Globe-News from the Whittenburg family.{{cite book |last=Grimes |first=Millard |year=1985 |title=The last linotype: the story of Georgia and its newspapers since World War II |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7q4C6hESNrcC&q=%22Southwestern+Newspapers+Corporation%22&pg=PA163 |access-date=July 5, 2012 |page=163|publisher=Mercer University Press |isbn=9780865541900 }}
In 2001, the Daily News and Globe-Times merged into one morning edition, the Globe-News.{{cite web| url = http://amarillo.com/agn100/history/| title = E Pluribus Unum: Globe-News has deep roots}}
In 2017, Morris Communications sold its newspapers to GateHouse Media.{{Cite web| title = Morris Announces Sale of Publications to Gatehouse Media.| work = Morris Communications| access-date = 2018-02-19| date = 2017-08-09| url = http://www.morris.com/content/morris-announces-sale-of-publications-to-gatehouse-media/}}
The Globe-News moved in September 2018 from the building it occupied since 1949 on South Harrison Street on the west side of downtown. The newspaper chose to move to the FirstBank Southwest Tower on Tyler Street a few blocks away.
Effective July 10, 2023, the paper transitioned from carrier delivery to delivery via the U.S. Postal Service.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Amarillo Globe-News making changes to distribution of print editions |url=https://www.amarillo.com/story/news/2023/06/03/globe-news-partners-with-postal-service-for-newspaper-delivery/70282237007/ |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=Amarillo Globe-News |language=en-US}}
Journalists
Journalists who got their start at the Amarillo Globe-News include National Journal correspondent Major Garrett, Dow Jones Newswires and columnist Al Lewis.
References
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External links
{{Portal|Texas|Journalism}}
- {{Official website}}
- {{Handbook of Texas|id=hda02|name=Amarillo, Texas}}. Accessed January 20, 2006
{{Amarillo, Texas}}
{{Gannett}}
{{PulitzerPrize PublicService 1951–1975}}
Category:Mass media in Amarillo, Texas
Category:Daily newspapers published in Texas
Category:Pulitzer Prize–winning newspapers
Category:1909 establishments in Texas