The Dallas Times Herald, founded in 1888 by a merger of the Dallas Times

Dallas Times

The Dallas Times was an afternoon newspaper published in Dallas, Texas from 1876 until it merged with the Dallas Herald in 1888 to form the Daily Times Herald....

and the Dallas Herald

Dallas Herald

Two newspapers of general circulation in Dallas, Texas have operated under the name Dallas Herald.- First Dallas Herald :...

, was once one of two major daily newspaper

Newspaper

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s serving the Dallas

Dallas, Texas

Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

, Texas

Texas

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 (USA

United States

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) area. It won three Pulitzer Prizes, all for photography, and two George Polk Awards

George Polk Awards

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, for local and regional reporting. As an afternoon publication for most of its 103 years, its demise was hastened by the shift of newspaper reading habits to morning papers, the reliance on television for late-breaking news, as well as the loss of an antitrust lawsuit against crosstown rival The Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Morning News is the major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area, with a circulation of 264,459 subscribers, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported in September 2010...

after the latter's parent company bought the rights to 26 United Press Syndicate features that previously had been running in the Times Herald.

MediaNews Group

MediaNews Group

MediaNews Group, based in Denver, Colorado, is one of the largest newspaper companies in the United States. It is privately owned and operates 56 daily newspapers in 12 states, with combined daily and Sunday circulation of approximately 2.4 million and 2.7 million, respectively...

 bought the Times Herald from Times Mirror in 1986; Times Mirror had owned the paper since 1969.