{{Short description|Daily newspaper published in Fort Worth, Texas, US}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2023}} {{Use American English|date=November 2023}} {{Infobox newspaper | logo = Fort Worth Star-Telegram logo.svg | image = File:Front page of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 30, 2024.jpg | image_size = | caption = The front page of the<br />''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'', May 30, 2024 | type = Daily newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = 1906 (as ''Fort Worth Star'') | owners = The McClatchy Company<ref name=McClatchy>{{cite web |url=http://www.mcclatchy.com/our-impact/markets |title=Our Markets |website=McClatchy Company |access-date=March 26, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410081729/http://www.mcclatchy.com/our-impact/markets |archive-date=April 10, 2017 }}</ref> | headquarters = Fort Worth, Texas<br />US | editor = Steve Coffman<ref name="Editor Promoted">{{cite news |url=http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/article194477749.html |title=Star-Telegram editor promoted2018 }}</ref> | publisher = Steve Coffman | circulation = 13,000 Average print circulation<ref>{{cite news |last1=Garcia |first1=Eric |title=Star-Telegram reduces print editions to focus on digital offerings. What comes next? |url=https://fortworthreport.org/2024/10/15/star-telegram-reduces-print-editions-to-focus-on-digital-offerings-what-comes-next/ |access-date=8 December 2025 |publisher=Fort Worth Report |date=October 14, 2024}}</ref> <br /> 14,000 Digital Subscribers <ref>{{cite news |last1=Garcia |first1=Eric |title=Star-Telegram reduces print editions to focus on digital offerings. What comes next? |url=https://fortworthreport.org/2024/10/15/star-telegram-reduces-print-editions-to-focus-on-digital-offerings-what-comes-next/ |access-date=8 December 2025 |publisher=Fort Worth Report |date=October 14, 2024}}</ref> | website = {{official URL}} | ISSN = 0889-0013 }}
The '''''Fort Worth Star-Telegram''''' is an American daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and Tarrant County, the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex. It is owned by The McClatchy Company.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-11-03 |title=McClatchy {{!}} Markets |url=https://www.mcclatchy.com/our-impact/markets/star-telegram/ |access-date=2023-04-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103034947/https://www.mcclatchy.com/our-impact/markets/star-telegram/ |archive-date=2021-11-03 }}</ref>
==History== In May 1905, Amon G. Carter accepted a job as an advertising space salesman for the new newspaper The ''Fort Worth Star''. The ''Star'' printed its first edition on February 1, 1906, with Carter as the advertising manager,{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}} and Louis J. Wortham as its first editor.<ref name="ST">{{Cite news |date=1949-10-30 |title=Louis J. Wortham Helped Star-Telegram Take Root |page=407 |work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119573163/fort-worth-star-telegram/ |access-date=2023-02-24 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> 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. The ''Star'' 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, the ''Fort Worth Telegram''. In November 1908, the ''Star'' purchased the ''Telegram'' for $100,000, and the two newspapers combined on January 1, 1909, into the ''Fort 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 for 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, the ''Star-Telegram'' was distributed over one of the largest circulation areas of any newspaper in the South, serving not just Fort Worth, but also West Texas, New Mexico, and western Oklahoma. The newspaper created WBAP in 1922 and Texas' first television station, WBAP-TV, in 1948.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utarl/00128/arl-00128.html |title=Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection: A Guide |website=University of Texas Library |access-date=May 1, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911200726/http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utarl/00128/arl-00128.html |archive-date=September 11, 2017 }}</ref>
Capital Cities Communications purchased the newspaper along with WBAP-AM-FM from the Carter family in 1974.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fort Worth media deal hits $100 million mark.|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/73-OCR/1973-01-08-BC-OCR-Page-0010.pdf|periodical=Broadcasting|page=10|date=January 8, 1973}}</ref> Disney, then the owner of Capital Cites, sold the Star-Telegram along with other newspapers to Knight-Ridder in 1997 and McClatchy purchased Knight-Ridder in 2006.
In August 2024, the newspaper announced it would reduce its number of weekly print editions to three a week: Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Davisson |first=Matthew |date=2024-08-02 |title=Fort Worth Star-Telegram to scale back print publication to 3 days a week |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/star-telegram-to-scale-back-print-publication-to-3-days-a-week/ |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=KTVT |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Market== The ''Star-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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mcclatchy.com/146/story/355.html |title=The McClatchy Company - Newspaper Profiles<!-- Bot generated title -->|website=McClatchy Company |access-date=May 1, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061109190337/http://www.mcclatchy.com/146/story/355.html |archive-date=November 9, 2006}}</ref>
==Pulitzer prizes== *1981 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography: Larry C. Price for "his photographs from Liberia". *1985 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service: Mark Thompson "for reporting which revealed that nearly 250 U.S. servicemen had lost their lives as a result of a design problem in helicopters built by Bell Helicopter—a revelation which ultimately led the Army to ground almost 600 Huey helicopters pending their modification".
==Online presence== The ''Star-Telegram'' is the nation's oldest continuously operating online newspaper.<ref name="article 1">{{cite news |last1=Outing |first1=Steve |title=Oldest Newspaper BBS Makes Transition to the Web – Editor & Publisher |url=https://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/oldest-newspaper-bbs-makes-transition-to-the-web/ |access-date=26 March 2019 |work=Editor & Publisher |date=August 28, 1995 |archive-date=March 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326201825/https://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/oldest-newspaper-bbs-makes-transition-to-the-web/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{Citation needed|date=May 2008}} StarText, an ASCII-based service, was started in 1982 and eventually integrated into the paper's current website, star-telegram.com.
==Awards== The newspaper's "Titletown, TX" video series earned three 2017 Lone Star Emmys, the first in ''Star-Telegram'' history, and an award for excellence and innovation in visual storytelling from the 2017 Online Journalism Awards.
In 2006, the ''Star-Telegram'' won the Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award for General Excellence, Class IV.<ref>{{cite web |title=Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards: 2006 Winners and Finalists |date=24 October 2006 |url=https://journalism.missouri.edu/2006/10/missouri-lifestyle-journalism-awards-2006-winners-and-finalists/ |publisher=University of Missouri |access-date=25 December 2018}}</ref>
== See also == * List of newspapers in Texas * {{Portal-inline|Journalism}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== * {{cite book |last=Flemmons |first=Jerry |date=1998 |title=Amon: The Texan Who Played Cowboy for America |location=Lubbock |publisher=Texas Tech University Press |isbn=0-89672-406-9 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/amontexanwhoplay00flem }} * {{cite journal |last=Harral |first=Paul K. |date=May 10, 2012 |title=Extra! Extra! The Star-Telegram: is it still relevant? |url=http://fwtx.com/articles/extra-extra-0 |journal=Fort Worth, Texas |location=Fort Worth }}
==External links== * [http://www.star-telegram.com/ The ''Star-Telegram'' official site] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20131119232113/http://m.star-telegram.com/ The ''Star-Telegram'' official mobile site] * {{cite web |title=2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation |website=Burrelles Luce |date=March 31, 2007 |url=http://www.burrellesluce.com/top100/2007_Top_100List.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070604184120/http://www.burrellesluce.com/top100/2007_Top_100List.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 4, 2007 |access-date=May 29, 2007}} * {{cite web |url=http://www.mcclatchy.com/146/story/355.html |title=McClatchy Newspapers: Fort Worth Star-Telegram |website=McClatchy Company |access-date=October 23, 2006 |archive-date=November 9, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061109190337/http://www.mcclatchy.com/146/story/355.html |url-status=dead }} * {{TARO|utarl|00128|''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'' Collection}}
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Category:Mass media in Fort Worth, Texas Category:Daily newspapers published in Texas Category:Newspapers published in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex Category:McClatchy publications Category:Pulitzer Prize–winning newspapers Category:Newspapers established in 1906 Category:Pulitzer Prize for Public Service winners Category:1906 establishments in Texas