''Alice Echo-News Journal'' is a newspaper based in
Alice, Texas
Alice is a city in, and the county seat of, Jim Wells County, Texas, United States, in the South Texas region of the state. The population was 19,104 at the 2010 census. Alice was established in 1888. First it was called "Bandana", then "Kleberg ...
, covering the Jim Wells County area of South Texas and published Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
D.S. Boother founded the ''Alice Echo'' in 1894, publishing it as a weekly. He sold to a group headed by publisher Kenneth Fellows in 1935, which sold to V.D. Ringwald three years later. Ringwald made the paper a daily in 1946, changing the name to the ''Alice Daily Echo''.
Gulf Enterprises bought the newspaper in 1966, installing Lowell P. Hunt as publisher. The next year, the owners bought the weekly ''Alice News'' and renamed the product the ''Alice Echo-News''. The owners of a newspaper chain headed by the '' Brownwood Bulletin'' (Woodson Newspapers Inc.) bought the newspaper in 1975, with co-ownership by Brownwood's Craig Woodson and Hunt.
The ''Echo-News'' was bought by
Boone Newspapers
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in 1990 and
American Consolidated Media
American Consolidated Media (ACM) was a United States publisher of approximately 100 daily and weekly newspapers, which it divested in 2014.
In March 2014, ACM announced the it was selling three of its regional newspaper groups, encompassing 34 ...
in 2000. ACM bought the free semiweekly ''Alice Journal'' in 2002 and renamed the paper the ''Alice Echo-News Journal''.
In 2010, the paper switched to a tabloid format and reduced its output to three days a week (Wednesday, Friday, Sunday). It also changed its printing schedule from afternoons to mornings.
In 2014, ACM sold its Texas and Oklahoma newspapers to
New Media Investment Group
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Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, Edition Time
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*From 1953 to 1963: Pulitzer Priz ...
in 1955 for coverage of the "one-man political rule" of George Berham Parr in neighboring Duval County. The Pulitzer judges praised her story, "written under unusual pressure both of edition time and difficult, even dangerous, circumstances."