The ''Amarillo Globe-News'' is a daily
newspaper in
Amarillo, Texas, owned by
Gannett
Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.[FirstBank Southwest Tower
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, but is printed at a facility in
Lubbock.
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. He served on the boards of the Wayland Baptist College (now
Wayland Baptist University) in
Plainview, Texas
Plainview is a city in and the county seat of Hale County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 22,194.
Geography
Plainview is located at (34.191204, –101.718806) and is located on the Llano Estacado.
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, then at Texas Technological College (now
Texas Tech University).
He went on to
Lubbock, Texas
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is the 10th-most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of government of Lubbock County. With a population of 260,993 in 2021, the city is also the 85th-most populous in the United States. The city is in the northw ...
, 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
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Early ...
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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
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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 The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1961.
Journalism awards
*Public Service:
** The '' Amarillo Globe-Times'', for "exposing a breakdown in local law enforcement with resultant punitive action that swept lax officials from their posts and br ...
for
Public Service for exposing government corruption in
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and
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counties.
The organization noted the paper "expos
da 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."
The company also purchased
radio stations WDAG and KGRS (merging them to form
KGNC in 1935), and
NBC television station KGNC-TV (now
KAMR) in 1953.
On September 1, 1972, Morris Communications bought the ''Globe-News'' from the Whittenburg family.
In 2001, the ''Daily News'' and ''Globe-Times'' merged into one morning edition, the ''Globe-News''.
In 2017,
Morris Communications sold its newspapers 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.
[Tim Howsare, "", ''Amarillo Globe-News'', September 16, 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-10.]
Journalists
Journalists who got their start at the Amarillo Globe-News include ''
National Journal
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'' correspondent
Major Garrett,
Dow Jones Newswires and columnist
Al Lewis.
References
External links
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*. Accessed January 20, 2006
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Mass media in Amarillo, Texas
Daily newspapers published in Texas
Gannett publications
Pulitzer Prize-winning newspapers
1909 establishments in Texas
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service winners
Newspapers established in 1909