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Baytown Sun ''The Baytown Sun'', is a newspaper published in Baytown, Texas, United States. It was first published 1919 as the ''Goose Creek Gasser''. The paper is owned by Southern Newspapers Inc., a news-media company based in Houston, Texas. History The ...
'' * '' The Collegian (Houston Baptist University)'' * '' Community Impact Newspaper'' * '' The Courier'' (Montgomery County's only daily newspaper) * ''
The Daily Cougar ''The Cougar'' is a weekly newspaper run entirely by students at the University of Houston. In publication since April 6, 1928, ''The Cougar'' was originally named ''The Cougar'' but was renamed ''The Daily Cougar'' and again renamed ''The Cougar' ...
'' * '' Free Press Houston'' * ''
Galveston County Daily News ''The Daily News'', formerly the ''Galveston County Daily News'' and ''Galveston Daily News'', is a newspaper published in Galveston, Texas, United States. It was first published April 11, 1842, making it the oldest newspaper in the U.S. state of ...
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Houston Business Journal American City Business Journals, Inc. (ACBJ) is an American newspaper publisher based in Charlotte, North Carolina. ACBJ publishes The Business Journals, which contains local business news for 44 markets in the United States, Hemmings Motor New ...
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Houston Chronicle The ''Houston Chronicle'' is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States. , it is the third-largest newspaper by Sunday circulation in the United States, behind only ''The New York Times'' and the ''Los Angeles Times''. With i ...
'' * '' Bellaire Examiner'' * ''
Memorial Examiner The ''Examiner'' group of newspapers are a set of four community newspapers owned by the Hearst Corporation, doing business as Houston Community Newspapers (HCN). The publications include the '' Bellaire Examiner'', ''Memorial Examiner'', '' River ...
'' * '' The Leader'' (The Heights, Garden Oaks, Oak Forest, and North Houston) * '' River Oaks Examiner'' * '' West University Examiner'' * '' Houston Defender'' * '' Houston Forward Times'' * ''
Houston Press The ''Houston Press'' is an online newspaper published in Houston, Texas, United States. It is headquartered in the Midtown area. It was also a weekly print newspaper until November 2017. The publication is supported entirely by advertising ...
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Houston Voice ''The Houston Voice'', originally known as ''The Montrose Star'', was a bi-weekly newspaper published on alternating Wednesdays in Houston, Texas. A subsequent newspaper (not by the original owners) is now known as ''Montrose Star'' ISSN (2163- ...
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La Voz de Houston ''La Voz de Houston'' (Spanish: "The Voice of Houston") is a Spanish-language weekly newspaper distributed by the ''Houston Chronicle'', and a subsidiary of the ''Houston Chronicle''. The newspaper's offices are located in the ''Houston Chronicle ...
'' * '' La Prensa de Houston'' * '' Mach Song'' (national Vietnamese paper) * Manila Headline (Filipino community newspaper) * ''
Rice Thresher ''The Rice Thresher'' is the weekly student newspaper of Rice University in Houston, Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 k ...
'' * '' Sports Edition Magazine'' * '' The National Outreach'' (national newspaper) Defunct: * '' El Día'' * '' La Gaceta Mexicana'' * ''
Houston Post The ''Houston Post'' was a newspaper that had its headquarters in Houston, Texas, United States. In 1995, the newspaper shut down, and its assets were purchased by the '' Houston Chronicle''. History Gail Borden Johnson founded the ''Houston ...
'' * '' Public News'' * '' Telegraph and Texas Register''


African-American newspapers

The City of Houston has several African-American-owned newspapers published in the city. Allan Turner of the ''
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'' said that the papers "are both journalistic throwbacks — papers whose content directly reflects their owners' views — and cutting-edge, hyper-local publications targeting the concerns of the city's roughly half-million African-Americans." By 2011 many of the African-American newspapers began to establish presences on the
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Alternative newspapers

There was an underground newspaper called ''Space City'', cofounded by Thorne Dreyer, which operated circa 1971 for around three and one half years. It was operated by a committee of half men and half women. A Ku Klux Klan group attacked the office with a bomb circa 1971. - Opinion section.


See also

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El Paso El Paso (; "the pass") is a city in and the seat of El Paso County in the western corner of the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the 23rd-largest city in the U.S., the s ...
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Lubbock 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 northw ...
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McAllen McAllen is the largest city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States, and the 22nd-most populous city in Texas. It is located at the southern tip of the state in the Rio Grande Valley, on the Mexico–United States border. The city limits extend ...
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McKinney McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas. It is Collin County's third-largest city, after Plano and Frisco. A suburb of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, McKinney is about north of Dallas. The U.S. Census Bureau lis ...
, Midland, Odessa,
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Waco Waco ( ) is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is situated along the Brazos River and I-35, halfway between Dallas and Austin. The city had a 2020 population of 138,486, making it the 22nd-most populous city in the st ...
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Wichita Falls Wichita Falls ( ) is a city in and the seat of government of Wichita County, Texas, United States. It is the principal city of the Wichita Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Archer, Clay, and Wichita counties. According ...
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References


Bibliography

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The Portal to Texas History: Houston County
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