| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | CherryRoad Media |
| Publisher | Jeremy Gulban |
| Editor | Melissa Trevino |
| Founded | 1894 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 405 E. Main Street,Alice, Texas United States |
| Circulation | 493 (as of 2023)[1] |
| OCLC number | 13913080 |
| Website | Official website |
Alice Echo-News Journal is a newspaper based inAlice, Texas, covering theJim Wells County area ofSouth Texas and published Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
D.S. Boother founded theAlice Echo in 1894, publishing it as a weekly. He sold to a group headed by publisher Kenneth Fellows in 1935, which sold to V.D. Ringwald three years later. Ringwald made the paper a daily in 1946, changing the name to theAlice Daily Echo.
Gulf Enterprises bought the newspaper in 1966, installing Lowell P. Hunt as publisher. The next year, the owners bought the weeklyAlice News and renamed the product theAlice Echo-News. The owners of a newspaper chain headed by theBrownwood Bulletin (Woodson Newspapers Inc.) bought the newspaper in 1975, with co-ownership by Brownwood's Craig Woodson and Hunt.
TheEcho-News was bought byBoone Newspapers in 1990 andAmerican Consolidated Media in 2000. ACM bought the free semiweeklyAlice Journal in 2002 and renamed the paper theAlice Echo-News Journal.[2]
In 2010, the paper switched to a tabloid format and reduced its output to three days a week (Wednesday, Friday, Sunday). It also changed its printing schedule from afternoons to mornings.
In 2014, ACM sold its Texas and Oklahoma newspapers toNew Media Investment Group.[3]
Gannett sold the paper, along with 16 others toCherryRoad Media in February 2022.[4]
Echo reporterCaro Brown won thePulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, Edition Time in 1955 for coverage of the "one-man political rule" of George Berham Parr in neighboringDuval County. The Pulitzer judges praised her story, "written under unusual pressure both of edition time and difficult, even dangerous, circumstances."[5]
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