Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	Morris Communications
Founded	1900
Headquarters	Lubbock, Texas, USA

Website: www.lubbockonline.com

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal is a newspaper based in Lubbock, Texas, U.S.. It is owned by the Morris Communications Company. The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal was a combination of two newspapers, the Lubbock Avalanche and the Lubbock Daily Journal.

The Lubbock Avalanche was founded by attorney John James Dillard with his business partner Thad Tubbs, who provided the money for the equipment to publish a newspaper in 1900. According to Dillard, the origin of the newspaper's Avalanche name comes from he wanted to surprise the citizens of Lubbock with the newspaper.

Dillard sold his newspaper to James Lorenzo Dow in 1908. In 1922, the Avalanche became a daily newspaper (except for Mondays) and a year later added a morning edition. The Avalanche merged with rival publication, the Lubbock Daily Journal, to form the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.

The Amarillo Globe-News Publishing Company, headed by Eugene A. Howe and Wilbur C. Hawk, would later own the majority of Avalanche-Journal. In 1951, the Whittenburg family in Amarillo, Texas acquired the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, after their Panhandle Publishing Company was merged with Amarillo Globe-News Publishing Company. In 1972, both the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and Amarillo Globe-News were acquired by Morris Communications Corporation of Augusta, Georgia.