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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | USA Today Co. |
| Editor | John R. Moses |
| Founded | 1883 |
| Headquarters | 820 N. Lower Broadway Corpus Christi,TX 78401 United States |
| Circulation | 6,878 (as of 2023)[1] |
| ISSN | 0894-5365 |
| Website | caller |
TheCorpus Christi Caller-Times is thenewspaper of record forCorpus Christi, Texas.
There has been a newspaper in Corpus Christi for almost as long as there has been a town. In 1883, theCaller was started in a frame building at 310 North Chaparral, now the site of Green's Jewelers.Roy Miller was editor of theCaller 1907–1911, when it was an enterprise of theKing Ranch; he sold his interest in it in 1929.[2][3] Later, there was a newspaper called theTimes. Both were located on North Chaparral in 1920. In the late 1920s, the two were combined to become theCaller-Times. The present building was erected in 1935 at 820 North Lower Broadway and has subsequently been remodeled and enlarged several times. The most recent addition was completed in 1994 when a newGoss Metrolineroffset press was installed in a $10 million expansion.
Another milestone was reached in August 1995 – the Internet edition ofCaller-Times was launched. The site was re-designed and renamed caller.com in 1998.
Caller.com was redesigned and relaunched with a new platform in November 2001. The site remained mostly the same until May 2007 when it launched a new design and layout.
On October 15, 1997, the paper itself, long owned byHarte-Hanks Communications, was taken over by theScripps Howard group.
In the early days, the paper cost just a few cents and until well afterWorld War II, was delivered on bicycles. In 1939 theCaller-Times employed 100 people. Currently, there are nearly 100 full and part-time employees working at theCaller-Times.
TheCaller-Times and Caller.com have consistently been recognized for quality. In 2001,Caller-Times was named Best Daily Newspaper by the Press Club of Dallas in a 5-state competition area. Staff also won 9 other "Katies." TheCaller-Times has been chosen best newspaper in the 100,000 and under circulation category nine of the 13 years the category has been judged and was runner-up three of the other four years.
TheCaller-Times was the first source to report on U.S. Vice PresidentDick Cheney'shunting accident. The accident took place in the early evening of Saturday, February 11, 2006.Katharine Armstrong, the owner of the ranch on which the accident took place, waited until the next morning to inform theCaller-Times.[4]
...running another King Ranch enterprise, theCorpus Christi Caller, bringing back the coastal promotion and civic boosterism that had characterized the newspaper in its early years.
