Amarillo Globe-News

Infobox Newspaper
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caption = The March 19, 2006 front page of the
"Amarillo Globe-News"
type = Daily newspaper
format = Broadsheet
foundation = 1909
(as "The Amarillo Daily News")
owners = Morris Communications
headquarters = Amarillo, TX
United States
editor =
publisher = Les Simpson
website = [http://www.amarillo.com/ 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 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 oompany, was heavily invested in the telephone company, and served on the boards of then Wayland Baptist University (then College) in Plainview, Texas Tech University (then Texas Technological College) at Lubbock, and the defunct Goodnight Baptist College in the now ghost town of Goodnight in Armstrong County. The college and town were named for legendary Texas Panhandle rancher Charles Goodnight. [Joseph Elbert Nunn exhibit at Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas]

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. On December 2, 1951, the "Globe-News" and "Times" were merged into one company with the majority of the stock owned by the "Times' " Whittenburg family. "The Daily News" would continue 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.

References

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*Handbook of Texas|id=AA/hda2|name=Amarillo, Texas. Accessed January 20, 2006

External links

* [http://amarillo.com/ "Amarillo Globe-News" website]
* [http://www.morris.com/divisions/morris_publishing_group/daily_newspapers/amarillo.shtml Morris subsidiary profile of the "Amarillo Globe-News"]