Dallas Observer
{{Short description|Newspaper in Dallas, Texas}}
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| type = Alternative weekly
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| owner = Voice Media Group
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| editor = Patrick Williams{{r|Staff_2022}}
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| newseditor = Kelly Dearmore{{r|Staff_2022}}
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| headquarters = 2030 Main Street, Suite 410
| publishing_city = Dallas, Texas
| publishing_country = United States
| circulation = 43,810
| circulation_date = June 2016
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Dallas Observer is a free digital and print publication based in Dallas, Texas.{{r|AboutUs_2022}} The Observer publishes daily online coverage of local news, restaurants, music, and arts, as well as longform narrative journalism. A weekly print issue circulates every Thursday. The Observer has been owned by Voice Media Group since January 2013.
The Observer is a member of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia. It has won dozens of national and regional awards for its journalism, including two first places for longtime columnist Jim Schutze in the 2017 AAN Awards.{{r|2017_AAN_Awards}} In 1995, the H.L. Mencken Writing Award went to columnist Laura Miller, who went on to become the mayor of Dallas after leaving the Observer.{{cite news|last1=Goad|first1=Kimberly|title=WHO IS LAURA MILLER AND WHY DOES SHE HATE DALLAS?|url=http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1999/may/who-is-laura-miller-and-why-does-she-hate-dallas/|access-date=25 January 2017|publisher=Dallas Magazine|date=May 1999}} In 2007, two Observer reporters, Jesse Hyde and Megan Feldman, were named finalists in the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists.
History
The Observer was started in October 1980 by partners Ken Kirk, Bob Walton, Jeff Wilmont, and Gregg Wurdeman as a weekly local arts and cinema review publication. In 1991, the Observer was bought by New Times Media.{{cite journal |last1=Vane |first1=Sharyn |date=November 1998 |title=Consider the Alternative |journal=American Journalism Review |url=http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=912 |access-date=October 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606165524/http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=912 |archive-date=June 6, 2013 |url-status=dead }} In 2005, New Times both acquired and adopted the corporate name of Village Voice Media.{{cite news |title= The Village Voice, Pushing 50, Prepares to Be Sold to a Chain of Weeklies |author= Richard Siklos |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/business/24voice.html |newspaper= The New York Times |date= 2005-10-24|access-date=2022-03-14 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220119073643/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/business/the-village-voice-pushing-50-prepares-to-be-sold-to-a-chain-of.html | archive-date = 2022-01-19 | url-status = live | eissn = 1553-8095 | issn = 0362-4331 | oclc = 1645522 | df = dmy-all}} In September 2012, Village Voice Media executives Scott Tobias, Christine Brennan, and Jeff Mars bought Village Voice Media's papers and associated web properties from its founders and formed Voice Media Group.{{cite web|title=Village Voice Media Execs Acquire The Company's Famed Alt Weeklies, Form New Holding Company|date=September 24, 2012 |url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/23/voice-media-group-acquisition/|publisher=Tech Crunch|access-date=September 27, 2012}}{{cite news|last1=Mooney|first1=Michael J.|title=Why the Dallas Observer Was Sold|url=http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2012/november/why-the-dallas-observer-was-sold/|access-date=25 January 2017|work=D Magazine| date=2012-10-24 | issn = 0161-7826 | lccn = sn78000457 | oclc = 4020946 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201120214837/https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2012/november/why-the-dallas-observer-was-sold/ | archive-date = 2020-11-20 | url-status = live | df = dmy-all}}
See also
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References
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{{cite web | url = https://aan.org/aan/2017-aan-awards-winners-announced/ | title = 2017 AAN Awards Winners Announced | last1 = Snead | first1 = Molly | date = 2017-08-01 | website = Association of Alternative Newsmedia | language = en-US | access-date = 2022-03-14 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210412221646/https://aan.org/aan/2017-aan-awards-winners-announced/ | archive-date = 2021-04-12 | quote = COLUMN circulation 45,000 & over {{!}} 1st PLACE: Dallas Observer: Jim Schutze | df = dmy-all}}
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Further reading
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- {{cite journal |last1 = Parameswaran | first1 = Radhika | date = 1996 | title = Coverage of "Bride Burning" in the "Dallas Observer": A Cultural Analysis of the "Other" | url = | journal = Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies | language = en-US | volume = 16 | issue = 2/3 | pages = 69{{ndash}}100 | doi = 10.2307/3346804 | eissn = 1536-0334 | issn = 0160-9009 | jstor = 3346804 | jstor-access = | lccn = 76647397 | oclc = 46770686 | df = dmy-all}}
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.dallasobserver.com/}}
- {{cite web |url=http://aan.org/gyrobase/Aan/viewCompany?oid=oid%3A21 |title=Dallas Observer |access-date=February 23, 2007 |publisher=Association of Alternative Newsweeklies |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070309150119/http://aan.org/gyrobase/Aan/ViewCompany?oid=oid%3A21 |archive-date=March 9, 2007 |df=mdy }}
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Category:Newspapers published in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
Category:Alternative weekly newspapers published in the United States