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 The front page of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 30, 2024 | |
| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | The McClatchy Company[1] |
| Publisher | Steve Coffman |
| Editor | Steve Coffman[2] |
| Founded | 1906 (asFort Worth Star) |
| Political alignment | Conservative |
| Headquarters | Fort Worth,Texas US |
| Circulation | 43,342 (as of 2023)[3] |
| ISSN | 0889-0013 |
| Website | www |
TheFort Worth Star-Telegram is an American dailynewspaper servingFort Worth and Tarrant County, the western half of theNorth Texas area known as theMetroplex. It is owned byThe McClatchy Company.[4]
In May 1905,Amon G. Carter accepted a job as an advertising space salesman for the new newspaper TheFort Worth Star. She printed her first newspaper on February 1, 1906, with Carter as the advertising manager,[citation needed] andLouis J. Wortham as its first editor.[5]The Financier and President of the Fort Worth Star was Colonel Paul Waples, head of the Waples Platter Company and instrumental in nearly all of early Fort Worth institutions. TheStar lost money, and was in danger of going bankrupt when Carter, and Wortham went to Waples. He cut a check for the additional funds and purchased his newspaper's main competition, theFort Worth Telegram. In November 1908, theStar purchased theTelegram for$100,000, and the two newspapers combined on January 1, 1909, into theFort Worth Star-Telegram.
Paul Waples was the President of the Star Telegram publishing company and Chairman of the Board when he was tragically killed in an Interurban accident at his estate in Arlington Nov 16, 1916. Amon Carter and Louis Wortham were pall bearers Paul Waples, who left a significant legacy which is notated on a Plaque dedicated to his memory at the Star Telegram building in Fort Worth. Carter took the ball and From 1923 until after World War II, theStar-Telegram was distributed over one of the largest circulation areas of any newspaper in theSouth, serving not just Fort Worth, but alsoWest Texas,New Mexico, and westernOklahoma. The newspaper createdWBAP in 1922 and Texas' first television station,WBAP-TV, in 1948.[6]
In August 2024, the newspaper announced it would reduce its number of weekly print editions to three a week: Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.[7]
TheStar-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.[8]
TheStar-Telegram is the nation's oldest continuously operatingonline newspaper.[9][citation needed]StarText, an ASCII-based service, was started in 1982 and eventually integrated into the paper's current website, star-telegram.com.
The newspaper's "Titletown, TX" video series earned three 2017 Lone Star Emmys, the first inStar-Telegram history, and an award for excellence and innovation in visual storytelling from the 2017 Online Journalism Awards.
In 2006, theStar-Telegram won theMissouri Lifestyle Journalism Award for General Excellence, Class IV.[10]
