The ''Amarillo Globe-News'' is a daily

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Amarillo, Texas Amarillo ( ; Spanish for " yellow") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Potter County. It is the 14th-most populous city in Texas and the largest city in the Texas Panhandle. A portion of the city extends into Randall Cou ...

, owned by

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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

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publication by the

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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

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company. He served on the boards of the Wayland Baptist College (now

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) in

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, then at Texas Technological College (now

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). He went on to

Lubbock, Texas Lubbock ( ) 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 nort ...

, with the Goodnight Baptist College in the now

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of Goodnight in Armstrong County. The college and town were named for the legendary

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rancher

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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

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. On December 2, 1951, the ''Globe-News'' and ''Times'' were merged into one company with the majority of the stock owned by the ''Times

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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 for

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for exposing government corruption in Potter 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

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s WDAG and KGRS (merging them to form

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in 1935), and

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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,

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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 ''

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'' correspondent Major Garrett, Dow Jones Newswires and columnist Al Lewis.

References

External links

* *. Accessed January 20, 2006 {{PulitzerPrize PublicService 1951–1975 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