The
San Antonio
San Antonio Express-News is a daily newspaper in San Antonio,
Texas. It is owned by the
Hearst Corporation
Hearst Corporation and has offices in
Austin, the Rio Grande Valley and Washington, D.C. The Express-News is
the fourth largest newspaper in the state of Texas, with a daily
circulation of nearly 100,000 copies in 2016.[3]
Contents
1 History
2 Current business
3 See also
4 References
5 Sources
6 External links
History[edit]
The paper was first published in 1865 as a weekly tabloid-style
newspaper under the name The
San Antonio
San Antonio Express. At that time, the
city had already had a number of other newspapers in a number of
different languages. However, all the other publications went out of
business, leaving only the Express to serve the city.
In December 1866, the Express made the move from a weekly paper to a
daily newspaper, and expanded into a full newspaper by the early
1870s. The early days of the Express was marked by several leadership
changes which almost doomed the paper, until a brand new company, the
Express Printing Company, took control in 1875. The Express eventually
became a daily morning newspaper in 1878.
In January 1881 a new rival newspaper, the Evening Light, was first
published by A. W. Gifford and J. P. Newcomb, who had been an early
investor in the Express.[4] The Evening Light was published as an
afternoon paper, as opposed to the morning Express. At first, the
editors of the Express chose to ignore the upstart paper, but the
Light soon grew in popularity at the turn of the 20th century. In 1906
the Daily Light was sold to E. B. Chandler, and in 1909 the Daily
Light Publishing Company bought the
San Antonio
San Antonio Gazette. From then
until 1911 the paper was referred to as the Light and Gazette. Edward
S. O'Reilly, known as Tex, was at one time managing editor. In 1911
Harrison L. Beach and Charles S. Diehl, veteran correspondents of
national standing, moved to
San Antonio
San Antonio and bought the Light and
Gazette. Once again it was known as the Light. Diehl was a founder of
the AP wire service. Beach and Diehl installed leased wire news
service and published the first full stock market reports in a San
Antonio paper. The Light became liberal-Democratic in its political
views. While Beach and Diehl ran the paper, circulation increased from
11,000 to 25,000 copies daily. In 1918, the Express ownership, now
renamed Express Publishing Company, launched its own afternoon paper,
the
San Antonio
San Antonio Evening News. Soon thereafter, a rivalry developed
between workers of the Express and the News. In fact, some News
workers dubbed a new office building as the News-Express building. In
1924, however,
William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst bought the Light and instituted
Hearst policies, and by 1945 the circulation was approximately 70,000.
The 1920s was marked by expansion by Express Publishing as the company
started one of the city's first radio stations, WOAI, in 1922.
Meanwhile, the company's future owners, in the form of William
Randolph Hearst, purchased the Light. As the two rival companies
entered the 1950s, the Express and the News both had higher readership
numbers than the Light. However, the Light skyrocketed to the top of
the market when it acquired a number of popular comic strips, like
Dick Tracy. Over at Express Publishing, the company diversified
further as they acquired a couple more radio stations, and a
television station which they renamed KENS-TV. Those call letters were
intended to stand for, K-Express News Station. In the 1960s, Express
Publishing was sold to the
Harte-Hanks
Harte-Hanks newspaper group.
In 1973, with the Light beating the Express and the News in
circulation numbers, a new ownership group emerged. Australian native
Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch of News Corp bought the Express and the News from
Harte-Hanks. Murdoch re-formatted the News as a more tabloid-styled
paper, while the Express retained its original, conservative format.
The Light was now forced to compete against two different styles of
newspaper while at the same time trying to combat the growing costs of
an afternoon circulation.
By September 1984, the Express and the News merged into the
Express-News and afternoon service was slowly discontinued, while the
Light started getting into the morning circulation business in order
to keep up. But under News Corp., the Express-News adopted a more
mainstream format and expanded its services to communities outside
Bexar County. As a result, the Express-News became San Antonio's
leading newspaper for good. By 1992, News Corp had diversified into
movies and television and was looking to sell the Express-News. The
Hearst Corporation, which still owned the Light, agreed to either sell
or close the newspaper and acquire the Express-News in order to keep
its stake in the
San Antonio
San Antonio market. The Light never found a buyer and
it went out of business in January 1993.
On February 13, 2016, the paper broke the news of the death of US
Supreme Court Justice
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.[5]
Current business[edit]
Today, this Hearst Corp. newspaper is led by Publisher Susan Lynch
Pape, who is also Hearst's
Texas
Texas Group chief financial officer at the
Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle and the
San Antonio
San Antonio Express-News. Mike Leary is
Senior Vice President and Editor of the
San Antonio
San Antonio Express-News.
Jamie Stockwell is the managing editor.
The Express-News is a nationally recognized news organization that has
earned a number of top awards over the last several years, including
first-place finishes in the Scripps, National Headliners, ASNE,
TxAPME, Sigma Delta Chi, Best of the West, Editor & Publisher and
other contests for its coverage of South Texas, the military, border
affairs and general features. Its photo staff was a Pulitzer finalist
in the feature photography category for its immigration coverage in
South and Central America. Its subscriber website, ExpressNews.com,
has earned top honors for its overall digital storytelling.
See also[edit]
Dan Cook
List of newspapers in Texas
Texas
Texas portal
Companies portal
References[edit]
^ HEARST NEWSPAPERS NAMES MIKE LEARY EDITOR OF THE SAN ANTONIO
EXPRESS-NEWS
^ "Top Media Outlets: US Daily Newspapers" (PDF). Alliance for Audited
Media. Retrieved 2015-01-06.
^ "Top 10
Texas
Texas Daily Newspapers". Cision. August 3, 2016. Retrieved
January 9, 2018.
^ Handbook of
Texas
Texas Online, James Pearson Newcomb
^
http://www.poynter.org/2016/how-the-san-antonio-express-news-broke-news-of-scalias-death/396569/
Sources[edit]
Handbook of
Texas
Texas Online,
San Antonio
San Antonio Light
External links[edit]
ExpressNews.com and mySA.com Online homes of the Express-News
The history of the Express-News
San Antonio
San Antonio Express-News
Hearst subsidiary profile of the
San Antonio
San Antonio Express-News
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