newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, spor ...
based in
Brownwood, Texas
Brownwood is a city in and the county seat of Brown County, Texas, United States. The population was 18,862 at th2020 census Brownwood is located in the Northern Texas Hill Country and is home to Howard Payne University that was founded in 1889. ...
, United States.
History
Brownwood attorney William Harding Mayes purchased the weeklies ''Brownwood Bulletin'' in the 1886 and ''Brownwood Banner'' in the 1887, consolidating them into the ''Brownwood Banner-Bulletin''. His brother H.F. Mayes and he started the daily ''Brownwood Daily Bulletin'' on October 15, 1900. He published the newspaper until 1914.
H.F. Mayes and J.C. White bought the newspaper operation in 1919 and operated it until 1940, when C.C. Woodson bought the daily ''Bulletin''. In 1933, The weekly ''Banner-Bulletin'' and its commercial printing division were sold to Mayes' son, Wendell W. Mayes, and partner John W. Blake, who renamed it the ''Brownwood Banner''; the company was later sold to Clark Coursey. The papers merged in the 1950s. In 1959, Woodson’s son, Craig, bought the newspaper and began building a small chain of area newspapers.
In 1971, the newspaper moved to its current location and began using an
offset press
Offset printing is a common printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on ...
. In 1989, the Woodson Newspapers Inc. chain was sold to Boone Publishing of
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Tuscaloosa ( ) is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in west-central Alabama, United States, on the Black Warrior River where the Gulf Coastal and Piedmont plains meet. Alabama's fifth-largest city, it had an estimated population o ...
. American Consolidated Media acquired the ''Bulletin'' in 1999.
The
Macquarie Group
Macquarie Group Limited () is an Australian global financial services group. Headquartered and listed in Australia (), Macquarie employs more than 17,000 staff in 33 markets, is the world's largest infrastructure asset manager and Australia' ...
bought ''Bulletin'' parent company American Consolidated Media in 2007. ACM violated a $133.7 million loan agreement in 2009, and a group of lenders took over the company from Macquarie subsidiary
Southern Cross Media Group
Southern Cross Media Group (formerly Macquarie Media Group) is one of Australia's major media companies, as the parent company of Southern Cross Austereo. Its headquarters are in South Melbourne.
History
On 3 July 2007 Southern Cross Broadca ...
in 2010.
First published as a daily Monday through Saturday, a Sunday edition was added in 1940. The Saturday edition was dropped in 1953, but reinstated in 2004. The ''Bulletin'' went back to six-day publication when it dropped the Monday edition in 2009.
In 2005, the paper changed to morning delivery. Its publication cycle had previously been afternoon delivery.
The ''Bulletin'' began its website, brownwoodbulletin.com, in 1999. It moved to brownwoodtx.com in 2011.
In 2014, ACM sold its Texas and Oklahoma newspapers to