The ''Dallas Times Herald'', founded in 1888 by a merger of the '' Dallas Times'' and the '' Dallas Herald'', was once one of two major daily

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) area. It won three

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, all for photography, and two George Polk Awards, for local and regional reporting. As an afternoon publication for most of its 102 years,Handbook of Texas Online
"Dallas ''Times Herald'',"
Retrieved January 7, 2009. its demise was hastened by the shift of newspaper reading habits to morning papers, the reliance on television for late-breaking news, as well as the loss of an antitrust lawsuit against crosstown rival ''

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'' after the latter's parent company bought the rights to 26 United Press Syndicate features that previously had been running in the ''Times Herald''. MediaNews Group bought the ''Times Herald'' from the

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in 1986; Times Mirror had owned the paper since 1969. MediaNews sold the paper in 1988 to a company formed by John Buzzetta, a former partner of MediaNews Group’s founder, Dean Singleton. Roy E. Bode, who previously worked as Washington Bureau Chief of the paper and later as its associate editor, became its last editor-in-chief. Despite financial pressures, the ''Times Herald'' continued to operate its own news bureaus in Washington, Austin, Houston, San Antonio and other Texas cities, and did not layoff journalists during its final years. It also produced Pulitzer finalists and won other national journalism honors. According to Burl Osborne, the former publisher of the ''Morning News'', the ''Times Herald'' shut down on December 8, 1991. The next day,

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, owner of the ''Morning News'', bought the ''Times Herald'' assets for $55 million and sold the physical equipment to a variety of buyers to disperse the assets and thus prevent any other entity from easily re-establishing a competitive newspaper in Dallas.

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copies of the ''Dallas Times Herald'' can be found in the

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archival collection. The collection includes December 1855 – December 1991, with a gap from January through October 1886.

Awards

Pulitzer Prizes

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...

— Robert H. Jackson's photograph of Jack Ruby's murder of

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* 1980 — Erwin H. Hagler's feature photography for a series on the Western cowboy *

1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning ...

— James B. Dickman's feature photography of life and death in El Salvador

George Polk Awards

1978
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��Jim Henderson for regional reporting

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*1982 General Excellence

Notable former staff

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, sports columnist and author, current Fox Sports personality * John Bloom, syndicated film critic (a.k.a. Joe Bob Briggs), writer, and actor (''

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'') * Hector Cantu, co-creator, Baldo comic strip * Shelby Coffey III, editor and vice president * Lee Cullum, NPR and PBS commentator, columnist, and producer and host for KERA Television * Rodger Dean Duncan, bestselling author, ''Forbes'' magazine contributor * Najlah Feanny, contract photographer for ''

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'' *Mike Goldman, managing editor o
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, journalist, author, television commentator, historian; editorial page editor at time of

John F. Kennedy Assassination John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was in the vehicle wi ...

After sale of ''Times Herald'' and KRLD-TV to ''

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'', became a major stockholder *

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, baseball writer and recipient of the

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from the

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* Ray F. Herndon, UPI Vietnam War photojournalist and bureau chief, a finalist for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting *

Molly Ivins Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30, 1944 – January 31, 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, author, political commentator, and humorist. Born in California and raised in Texas, Ivins attended Smith College and the Columbia Univers ...

, syndicated columnist and author * Robert H. Jackson (photographer) best known for his photo of Ruby shooting Oswald *

Dan Jenkins Daniel Thomas Jenkins (December 2, 1928 – March 7, 2019) was an American author and sportswriter who often wrote for ''Sports Illustrated''. He was also a high-standard amateur golfer who played college golf at Texas Christian University. Ear ...

, sportswriter and author * Tom Johnson, publisher * Iris Krasnow, best-selling author specializing in relationships and personal growth *

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, author and anchor of ''

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'' on

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; was a ''Times Herald'' reporter at the time of

John F. Kennedy assassination John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was in the vehicle wi ...

* Margaret Mayer, who as chief of the Dallas Times-Herald's Washington bureau became one of the first women to hold such a position. * Scott Monserud, sports editor, Denver Post * Mark Potok, reporter, spokesperson,

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* Steven Reddicliffe, television critic *

Don Safran Donald Bernard Safran (January 17, 1930 – February 17, 2014) was an American film and television screenwriter, producer and marketing executive. He was also a reporter, film critic and arts and entertainment editor for the ''Dallas Times Herald'' ...

, film critic, also a publicist for

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* Gaylord Shaw, managing editor, won

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with

* Blackie Sherrod, award-winning sports columnist and commentator, author of several sportsbooks * Bud Shrake, sportswriter, screenwriter, and author *

Mickey Spagnola Mickey Spagnola, a former sportswriter for the now-defunct ''Dallas Times Herald'', serves as the feature writer for DallasCowboys.com, tracking the daily activities of the Dallas Cowboys. Mickey writes articles and blogs for the site, but also ho ...

, writer for DallasCowboys.com * Bascom N. Timmons, later opened a news bureau in Washington to serve newspapers in several states * Tara Weingarten, automotive journalist, Newsweek writer, founder of VroomGirls * Robert Wilonsky, entertainment reporter

References

External links

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Archived TV commercials

''Times Herald'' classified ad service, October 1978

''Times Herald'' promotion of new morning edition, 1982
with

Mason Adams Mason Adams (February 26, 1919 – April 26, 2005) was an American character actor and voiceover artist. From the late 1940s until the early 1970s, he was heard in numerous radio programs and voiceovers for countless television commercials, t ...

''Times Herald'' ad
with

Dabney Coleman Dabney Wharton Coleman (born January 3, 1932) is an American actor. Coleman's best known films include ''9 to 5'' (1980), '' On Golden Pond'' (1981), ''Tootsie'' (1982), '' WarGames'' (1983), '' Cloak & Dagger'' (1984), ''The Beverly Hillbillies ...

(voiced by

Harold Gould Harold Vernon Goldstein (December 10, 1923 – September 11, 2010), better known as Harold Gould, was an American character actor. He appeared as Martin Morgenstern on the sitcom ''Rhoda'' (1974–78) and Miles Webber on the sitcom ''The Golden ...

) Defunct newspapers of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex Pulitzer Prize-winning newspapers