The ''Dallas Times Herald'', founded in 1888 by a merger of the ''

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( USA) 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 Dallas Public Library archival collection. The collection includes December 1855 – December 1991, with a gap from January through October 1886.

Awards

Pulitzer Prizes

* 1964 —

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of Jack Ruby's murder of Lee Harvey Oswald *

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

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George Polk Awards

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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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, co-creator, Baldo comic strip *

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, 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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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 J. G. Taylor Spink Award from the Baseball Writers' Association of America * Ray F. Herndon, UPI Vietnam War photojournalist and bureau chief, a finalist for the

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

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, sportswriter and author * Tom Johnson, publisher * Iris Krasnow, best-selling author specializing in relationships and personal growth * Jim Lehrer, author and anchor of '' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer'' on PBS; was a ''Times Herald'' reporter at the time of

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* 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 *

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, reporter, spokesperson,

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* Steven Reddicliffe, television critic * Don Safran, film critic, also a publicist for

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, managing editor, won

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with

* Blackie Sherrod, award-winning sports columnist and commentator, author of several sportsbooks *

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, sportswriter, screenwriter, and author * Mickey Spagnola, writer for DallasCowboys.com *

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, 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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Portal to Texas History

''The Dallas Morning News''
longtime rival and eventual acquirer * * {{Handbook of Texas, id=fki05, name=''Kiest, Edwin J.''
Front cover of final edition of the ''Dallas Times Herald''Dallas Public Library, Dallas History and Archives Newspaper Holdings

Archived TV commercials

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

''Times Herald'' promotion of new morning edition, 1982
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with Dabney Coleman (voiced by Harold Gould) Defunct newspapers of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex Pulitzer Prize-winning newspapers