- A.M. Journal Express
A.M. Journal Express was a short-lived
free daily newspaper inDallas, Texas , owned byAmerican Consolidated Media . In its six-month life span, it lost under $5 million, according to company chairman Jeremy Halbreich.Fact|date=January 2008 The paper started onNovember 12 ,2003 and closed onApril 30 ,2004 . When plans for the A.M. Journal Express were revealed in September 2003, theDallas Morning News took action and designed their own free daily newspaper, called Quick, which hit the streets two weeks earlier than the Journal Express.Fact|date=January 2008According to ACM, The Dallas Morning News took hostile actions to ensure the failure of the A.M. Journal Express, including confrontations with A.M. Journal distributors and the threatening of A.M. Journal's advertisers. [ [http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2004/05/03/daily3.html ACM halts publication of A.M. Journal] ]
In January 2007, American Consolidated Media was acquired by Macquarie Media Group for $102 million.Fact|date=January 2008
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