The ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'' is an American daily
newspaper
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serving
Fort Worth and Tarrant County, the western half of the
North Texas area known as the
Metroplex. It is owned by
The McClatchy Company.
History
In May 1905,
Amon G. Carter
Amon Giles Carter Sr. (born Giles Amon Carter; December 11, 1879 – June 23, 1955) was the creator and publisher of the ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'', and a nationally known civic booster for Fort Worth, Texas. A legacy in his will was used t ...
accepted a job as an advertising space salesman in Fort Worth. A few months later, he agreed to help finance and run a new newspaper in town. The ''Fort Worth Star'' printed its first newspaper on February 1, 1906, with Carter as the advertising manager.
The ''Star'' lost money, and was in danger of going bankrupt when Carter had an audacious idea: raise additional money and purchase his newspaper's main competition, the ''Fort Worth Telegram''. In November 1908, the ''Star'' purchased the ''Telegram'' for
$100,000, and the two newspapers combined on January 1, 1909, into the ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram''.
From 1923 until after World War II, the ''Star-Telegram'' was distributed over one of the largest circulation areas of any newspaper in the
South, serving not just Fort Worth but also
West Texas
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,
New Mexico
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and western
Oklahoma. The newspaper created
WBAP in 1922 and Texas' first television station,
WBAP-TV
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, in 1948.
Market
The ''Star-Telegram’s'' circulation area is the Fort Worth/Arlington metro area (four counties) and 14 surrounding counties. The newspaper's primary market is the four-county Fort Worth/Arlington metro area, as well as the Dallas and Fort Worth suburb of Grand Prairie. The Fort Worth/Arlington metro area is the western part of the fourth-largest U.S. metropolitan area, the Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington Combined Statistical Area. Fort Worth/Arlington ranks 29th most populous as a metro area.
Pulitzer prizes
*1981
Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography:
Larry C. Price
Larry C. Price (born February 23, 1954) is an American photojournalist who has won two Pulitzer Prizes. In 1981 he won the Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography, recognizing images from Liberia published by the Fort Worth ''Star-Telegram''. In 19 ...
for "his photographs from Liberia".
*1985
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service:
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"for reporting which revealed that nearly 250 U.S. servicemen had lost their lives as a result of a design problem in helicopters built by
Bell Helicopter—a revelation which ultimately led the Army to ground almost 600
Huey helicopters pending their modification".
Online presence
The ''Star-Telegram'' is the nation's oldest continuously operating
online newspaper.
, an ASCII-based service, was started in 1982 and eventually integrated into the paper's current website, star-telegram.com.
Awards
The newspaper's "Titletown, TX" video series earned three 2017 Lone Star Emmys, the first in Star-Telegram history, and an award for excellence and innovation in visual storytelling from the 2017 Online Journalism Awards.
In 2006 the Star-Telegram won the
Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award for General Excellence, Class IV.
See also
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List of newspapers in Texas
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References
Further reading
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External links
The ''Star-Telegram'' official siteThe ''Star-Telegram'' official mobile site*
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1906 establishments in Texas