Dallas Times Herald

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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 103 years, its demise was hastened by the shift of newspaper reading habits to morning papers, as well as the loss of an antitrust lawsuit against crosstown rival The Dallas Morning News.

On December 8, 1991, Belo, owner of The Dallas Morning News, bought the Times Herald for $55 million and closed the paper the next day.

1 Pulitzer Prizes
2 George Polk Awards
3 Some Prominent Former Staff Members
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Pulitzer Prizes

1964 -- Robert H. Jackson's photograph of Jack Ruby's murder of Lee Harvey Oswald
1980 -- Erwin H. Hagler's feature photography for a series on the Western cowboy
1983 -- James B. Dickman's feature photography of life and death in El Salvador

[edit] George Polk Awards

1978 -- local reporting
1982 -- Jim Henderson for regional reporting

[edit] Some Prominent Former Staff Members

Joe Bob Briggs, syndicated film critic, writer, and actor
Molly Ivins, syndicated columnist
Jim Lehrer, author and anchor of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS who was a Times Herald reporter at the time of the Kennedy Assassination in Dallas
Skip Bayless, sports columnist, current ESPN analyst and co-host of Cold Pizza on ESPN2
Mickey Spagnola, writer for DallasCowboys.com
Lee Cullum, NPR and PBS commentator, columnist, and producer and host for KERA Television

[edit] See also

Cox, Patrick. The First Texas News Barons. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. ISBN 0-292-70977-3.
Gelsanliter, David. Fresh Ink: Behind the Scenes at a Major Metropolitan Newspaper. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1995. ISBN 0-929398-84-X. (Pages 141-181 discuss the demise of the Dallas Times Herald.)
Gwynne, S.C. (January 2005). The Dallas Morning Blues. Texas Monthly.
Rogers, John William. The Lusty Texans of Dallas, ch. XV. New York: Dutton, 1960.
Schutze, Jim (February 1992). It Wasn't Murder. Was It Suicide? What Really Killed the Herald. D the Magazine of Dallas.
The WPA Dallas Guide and History. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1992. ISBN 0-929398-31-9.