| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Morris Communications |
| Publisher | Les Simpson |
| Founded | 1909 (as The Amarillo Daily News) |
| Headquarters | Amarillo, TX United States |
| Official website | www.amarillo.com |
Amarillo Globe-News is a newspaper in Amarillo, Texas, owned by the Morris Communications Company.
The current-day Globe-News is a combination of several newspapers published in Amarillo. One began on November 4, 1909, as a prohibition publication by the Baptist deacon Dr. Joseph Elbert Nunn (1851 – 1938). In 1916, Nunn turned the Amarillo Daily News into a general newspaper.
Nunn also owned an electric company, and heavily invested in the telephone company. He served on the boards of the Wayland Baptist College (now Wayland Baptist University) in Plainview, Texas, then at Texas Tecnological College (now Texas Tech University).
He went on to Lubbock, Texas, with the Goodnight Baptist College in the now ghost town of Goodnight in Armstrong County. The college and town were named for the legendary Texas Panhandle rancher Charles Goodnight.[1]
In 1926, Eugene A. Howe and Wilbur Clayton Hawk bought the Amarillo Daily News and merged it with their Globe newspaper to form the Amarillo Globe-News Publishing Company.
The Amarillo Times started on December 15, 1937, as an afternoon tabloid newspaper. On December 2, 1951, the Globe-News and Times were merged into one company with the majority of the stock owned by the Times' Roy Whittenburg family, being published by Samuel Benjamin Whittenburg (1914 – 1992).The Daily News continued as the morning newspaper, while the Globe-News and Times were merged into the afternoon Globe-Times.
The Amarillo Globe-Times won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The Globe-News also purchased radio stations, WDAG and KRGS to form KGNC, and NBC station KGNC-TV (now KAMR). On September 1, 1972, Morris Communications acquired the Amarillo Globe-News.
In 2001, the Globe-News decided to merge their two newspapers into one morning edition.
Nelson Clyde, III, prominent publisher of the Tyler Morning Telegraph from 1990 until his death in 2007, worked at the Globe-News from 1966-1968. Charles E. Maple, a journalist and chamber of commerce official, worked at the Globe-News as police and fire reporter at the start of his career in the middle 1950s.
Journalists who got their start at the Amarillo Globe-News include Fox News Channel's Senior White House Correspondent Major Garrett and Dow Jones Newswires columnist Al Lewis.
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