The Dallas Morning News

THE ROCK OF TRUTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS CONDUCT IT ALWAYS UPON THE LINES OF FAIRNESS AND INTEGRITY ACKNOWLEDGE THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO GET FROM THE NEWSPAPER BOTH SIDES OF EVERY IMPORTANT QUESTION G. B. DEALEY The complex at 508 Young Street would house all or part of the *Morning News* operations for the next six decades. In late 1991, *The Dallas Morning News* became the lone major newspaper in the Dallas market when the *Dallas Times Herald* was closed after several years of circulation wars between the two papers, especially over the then-burgeoning classified advertising market. In July 1986, the *Times Herald* was purchased by William Dean Singleton, owner of MediaNews Group. After 18 months of efforts to turn the paper around, Singleton sold it to an associate. On December 8, 1991, Belo Corporation bought the *Times Herald* for $55 million, closing the paper the next day. It was not the first time the Belo family had bought and closed a paper named *The Herald* in Dallas. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Aldianewspaperlogo.png" caption="language=en}}</ref>"] :: Between 2003 and 2011, a tabloid-sized publication called *Quick* was published by *The Dallas Morning News*, which initially focused on general news in a quick-read, digest form, but in later years covered mostly entertainment and lifestyle stories. In late 2013, *The Dallas Morning News* ended its longtime news-gathering collaboration with previously co-owned TV station WFAA. The newspaper entered into a new partnership with KXAS at that time. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Dallas_Morning_News_vending_machine_2019.jpg" caption="language=en}}</ref>"] :: In late 2016, *The Dallas Morning News* announced it would move away from its home of 68 years on Young Street to a much-smaller building on Commerce Street previously used as the Dallas Public Library's downtown branch. Reasons given for the move included technology innovations and fewer staff, as well as printing presses no longer co-located with the newsroom and main offices. By December 2017, the move was completed. The former property was sold in October 2018 to a business partnership, which was looking into possible redevelopment opportunities for the complex, but in December 2018 the partnership backed out of the deal. Changes were announced in January 2019, which included layoffs and reducing the paper's Business section to one separate section per week, on Sundays; the remainder of the week, Business coverage was placed in the paper's Metro section. A total of 43 employees were affected by the move. In late February 2019, several printing agreements were not renewed at the *Morning News*' suburban printing plant, and 92 positions were affected by the change there. Publications that had to find a different printing partner included the *Dallas Observer* and *Fort Worth Weekly*. DallasNews Corporation, the paper's owner, announced on Sept. 13, 2023, it would offer buyouts eliminating up to 40 jobs, a 6% reduction in staff count. Buyouts would be offered starting Oct. 16. In May 2024, the company announced it would move its Plano printing operation, built in 1980, to a smaller facility in Carrollton. This would result in the elimination of 85 jobs, a 60% staff reduction. The changes were expected to save the company $5 million annually. The News reported in December 2024 it had agreed to sell the Plano location for $43.5 million. A new printing press will be purchased for the new site and should be ready in 2025. In July 2025, Hearst Communications announced it had agreed to purchase DallasNews Corporation for $14 a share. The sale is expected to close at the 4th quarter of 2025. A few weeks later Alden Global Capital submitted a competing bid for $16.50 a share, which was rejected by the DallasNews board. Alden then submitted a letter threatening to take their offer directly to DallasNews shareholders. After the sale closed, Hearst laid off 26 employees. ## Awards ### Pulitzer Prizes - [1986](1986-pulitzer-prize): National Reporting - [1989](1989-pulitzer-prize): Explanatory Journalism - [1991](1991-pulitzer-prize): Feature Photography - [1992](1992-pulitzer-prize): Investigative Reporting - [1993](1993-pulitzer-prize): Spot News Photography - [1994](1994-pulitzer-prize): International Reporting - [2004](2004-pulitzer-prize): Breaking News Photography - [2006](2006-pulitzer-prize): Breaking News Photography - [2010](2010-pulitzer-prize): Editorial Writing ### George Polk Awards - 1990: Gayle Reaves, David Hanners, and David McLemore for regional reporting - 1994: Olive Talley for education reporting ### Overseas Press Club Awards - 2001: Cheryl Diaz Meyer for photographic reporting from abroad ## References ## References 1. (2024-03-06). ["DallasNews Corporation Form 10-K"](https://investor.dallasnewscorporation.com/node/14556/html). 2. Maher, Bron. (2025-02-25). 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["Dallas Morning News scales back commercial printing, cuts 92 jobs"](https://www.dallasnews.com/business/local-companies/2019/02/28/dallas-morning-news-scales-back-commercial-printing-cuts-92-jobs/). *The Dallas Morning News*. ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dallas_Morning_News) and is available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the [article history page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dallas_Morning_News?action=history). ::