6-625: The Dallas Times Herald , founded in 1888 by a merger of the Dallas Times and the Dallas Herald , was once one of two major daily newspapers serving the Dallas , Texas ( USA ) area. It won three Pulitzer Prizes , all for photography, and two George Polk Awards , for local and regional reporting. As an afternoon publication for most of its 102 years, its demise was hastened by the shift of newspaper reading habits to morning papers,
12-731: A short while and had been practicing law, bought the Times not long after it began publication. He edited it until he joined the Dallas Morning News on October 1, 1885, the day the Morning News began publication, but retained ownership until late 1888, when he sold his interest in the Times Herald to Charles Edwin Gilbert. Under Sterett’s editorial direction, the Times strongly opposed prohibition . In January 1888
18-712: The Dallas Times Herald can be found in the Dallas Public Library archival collection. The collection includes December 1855 – December 1991, with a gap from January through October 1886. Dallas Times The Dallas Times was an afternoon newspaper published in Dallas , Texas ( USA ) from 1876 until it merged with the Dallas Herald in 1888 to form the Daily Times Herald . William G. Sterett , who had been in Dallas
24-406: The former publisher of the Morning News , the Times Herald shut down on December 8, 1991. The next day, Belo Corporation , owner of the Morning News , bought the Times Herald assets for $ 55 million and sold the physical equipment to a variety of buyers to disperse the assets and thus prevent any other entity from easily re-establishing a competitive newspaper in Dallas. Microfilm copies of
30-682: The paper since 1969. MediaNews sold the paper in 1988 to a company formed by John Buzzetta, a former partner of MediaNews Group's founder, Dean Singleton . Roy E. Bode, who previously worked as Washington Bureau Chief of the paper and later as its associate editor, became its last editor-in-chief. Despite financial pressures, the Times Herald continued to operate its own news bureaus in Washington, Austin, Houston, San Antonio and other Texas cities, and did not lay off journalists during its final years. It also produced Pulitzer finalists and won other national journalism honors. According to Burl Osborne ,
36-476: The reliance on television for late-breaking news, as well as the loss of an antitrust lawsuit against crosstown rival The Dallas Morning News after the latter's parent company bought the rights to 26 Universal Press Syndicate features that previously had been running in the Times Herald . MediaNews Group bought the Times Herald from the Times Mirror Company in 1986; Times Mirror had owned
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