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The '''''Fort Worth Star-Telegram''''' is aan [[United States|U.S.]]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>

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>

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 |date= |website=University of Texas Library |accessdateaccess-date=May 1, 2018 |deadurlurl-status=nolive |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911200726/http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utarl/00128/arl-00128.html |archivedatearchive-date=September 11, 2017 |df=}}</ref>

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 -->|author= |date= |website=McClatchy Company |accessdateaccess-date=May 1, 2018 |deadurlurl-status=yesdead |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061109190337/http://www.mcclatchy.com/146/story/355.html |archivedatearchive-date=November 9, 2006|df=}}</ref>

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}}</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.

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 |accessdateaccess-date=25 December 2018}}</ref>

* {{cite book |last=Flemmons |first=Jerry |date=1998 |title=Amon: The Texan Who Played Cowboy for America |location=[[Lubbock, Texas|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, Texas|Fort Worth]] |publisher= |accessdate= }}

* [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 |accessdateaccess-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 |accessdateaccess-date=October 23, 2006}}

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