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{{short description|Daily newspaper published in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.}}
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{{Infobox Newspapernewspaper
| name = Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| logo = Fort Worth Star-Telegram logo.svg
| image = File:Front page of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, frontMay page30, 2024.pngjpg
| image_size = 225px
| caption = The front page of the<br />''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'', May 30, 2024
| type = Daily [[newspaper]]
| format = [[Broadsheet]]
| foundation = 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 = 808 Throckmorton St.<br />[[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]], [[Texas]] 76102<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 = 43,342
| circulation = 176,219 daily<br />184,079 Sunday<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mcclatchy.com/our-impact/markets/star-telegram |title=Star-Telegram |website=McClatchy Company |access-date=October 6, 2018}}</ref>
| circulation_date = 2023
| website = [http://www.star-telegram.com Star-Telegram.com]
| circulation_ref = <ref>{{Cite web |title=2023 Texas Newspaper Directory |url=https://publisher.etype.services/The-Texas-Newspaper-Directory/e-paper-regular-edition/EEA520B114811333 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230503044946/https://publisher.etype.services/The-Texas-Newspaper-Directory/e-paper-regular-edition/EEA520B114811333 |archive-date=2023-05-03 |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=Texas Press Association}}</ref>
| ISSN = 0889-0013▼
| website = {{official URL}}
| |political=[[Conservative]]}}▼
▲| ISSN = 0889-0013|
▲| |political = [[Conservative]]}}
}}
 
The '''''Fort Worth Star-Telegram''''' is an American daily [[newspaper]] serving [[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]] and Tarrant County, the western half of the [[North Texas]] area known as the [[Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex|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 in Fort Worth. A few months later, he agreed to help finance and run a new newspaper in town. The ''Fort Worth Star'' printed its first newspaper 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 |pages=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 ''Star'' lost money, and was in danger of going bankrupt when Carter had an audacious idea: raise additional money and purchase his newspaper's main competition, the ''Fort Worth Telegram''. In November 1908, the ''Star'' purchased the ''Telegram'' for [[USD|$]]100,000, and the two newspapers combined on January 1, 1909, into the ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram''.
 
From 1923 until after World War II, the ''Star-Telegram'' was distributed over one of the largest circulation areas of any newspaper in the [[Southern United States|South]], serving not just Fort Worth but also [[West Texas]], [[New Mexico]] and western [[Oklahoma]]. The newspaper created [[WBAP (AM)|WBAP]] in 1922 and Texas' first television station, [[KXAS|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>
 
In August 2024, the newspaper announced it will 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’sTelegram'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==
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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 Awards|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 ==
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[[Category:Fort Worth, Texas]]
[[Category:NewspapersDaily newspapers published in Texas]]
[[Category:Newspapers published in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex]]
[[Category:McClatchy publications]]
[[Category:Pulitzer Prize-winning newspapers]]
[[Category:PublicationsNewspapers established in 1906]]
[[Category:Pulitzer Prize for Public Service winners]]
[[Category:Former subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company]]
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