Texarkana Gazette
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | WEHCO Media, Inc. |
| Publisher | Maurice "Buddy" King[1] |
| Editor | Les Minor |
| Founded | 1875 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 50ยข weekdays, $1.25 Sundays |
| Headquarters | 315 Pine St, Texarkana, Texas |
| Circulation | 30,508[2] |
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| Website: TexarkanaGazette.com | |
The Texarkana Gazette is a daily newspaper founded in 1875 and currently owned by WEHCO Media, Inc. It serves Texarkana and surrounding areas.
It was acquired through the consolidation of several newspapers in 1933 through the efforts of the Iowa-born businessman Clyde E. Palmer. Palmer established a newspaper and radio station chain that reached into Hot Springs, Camden, Magnolia, and Stuttgart. In 1952, Palmer acquired the television station KCMC which became KTAL-TV in 1961. It serves both Texarkana and Shreveport.
Palmer's Texarkana Gazette still circulates in Bowie, Red River, Morris, Marion, Titus, and Cass counties in Texas and Miller, Little River, Hempstead, Nevada, Howard, Sevier, Pike and Columbia counties in Arkansas. Newspapers are also delivered into McCurtain County in the southeastern corner of Oklahoma and into northern Caddo Parish in Louisiana.
The Texarkana Gazette has more than 130 employees and some 120 independent carriers that deliver newspapers in a 60-mile radius. The average circulation is about 34,000 daily. The previous afternoon daily, the Texarkana Daily News, ceased publication in 1978.
Palmer determined that the key to newspaper success was (1) the readers, (2) the advertisers, (3) the employees, (4) the creditors, and (5) the stockholders, in that order.
[edit] Notes
- ^ WEHCO Media, Inc. (2006-03-28). "Maurice "Buddy" King named publisher of the Texarkana Gazette". Press release. Retrieved on 2006-12-30.
- ^ Newsroom diversity report for Texarkana Gazette. John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. June 2005. Retrieved 2006-12-30.
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Editorial Staff as of April 2008
Editor: Les Minor
Managing Editor: Ethel Channon
City Editor: Christy Busby
Asst. City Editor: Sammy Allen
Writers
Active Age: Lori Dunn
Arts and Entertainment: Aaron Brand
Business:
City: Brandy Chewning
Police: Terri Richardson
Courts: Lynn LaRowe
Education: Marie Martin
General Assignment: Kristi Jordan
General Assignment: Susan Lindsey
Health: Ashley Gardner
Northeast Texas: Greg Bischof
Religion & Community: Rhonda Morrow
Southwest Arkansas: Jim Williamson
Sports Writers
Sports Editor: Johnny Green
Asst. Sports Editor: Louie Avery
Josh Richert
Matthew Koewler
Photography
Chief Photographer: Evan Lewis
Photographer: Robb Pittard
Photographer: Tanner Spendley
