The Dallas Times Herald, founded in 1888 by a merger of the Dallas Times and the Dallas Herald, was once one of two major daily newspapers serving the Dallas, Texas (USA) area. It won three Pulitzer Prizes, all for photography, and two George Polk Awards, 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, as well as the loss of an antitrust lawsuit against crosstown rival The Dallas Morning News. Year 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Two newspapers of general circulation in Dallas, Texas (USA) have operated under the name Dallas Herald. ... Dallas redirects here. ... For other uses, see Texas (disambiguation). ... The Pulitzer Prize is a United States literary award given out each April. ... The George Polk Awards is an American journalism award. ... The Dallas Morning News is the major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area. ...

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Pulitzer Prizes

• 1964 -- Robert H. Jackson's photograph of Jack Ruby's murder of Lee Harvey Oswald
• 1980 -- Erwin H. Hagler's feature photography for a series on the Western cowboy
• 1983 -- James B. Dickman's feature photography of life and death in El Salvador

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George Polk Awards

• 1978 -- local reporting
• 1982 -- Jim Henderson for regional reporting

Some Prominent Former Staff Members

• Joe Bob Briggs, syndicated film critic, writer, and actor
• Molly Ivins, syndicated columnist
• Jim Lehrer, author and anchor of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS who was a Times Herald reporter at the time of the Kennedy Assassination in Dallas
• Skip Bayless, sports columnist, current ESPN analyst and co-host of Cold Pizza on ESPN2
• Mickey Spagnola, writer for DallasCowboys.com
• Lee Cullum, NPR and PBS commentator, columnist, and producer and host for KERA Television

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See also

• Cox, Patrick. The First Texas News Barons. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. ISBN 0-292-70977-3.
• Gelsanliter, David. Fresh Ink: Behind the Scenes at a Major Metropolitan Newspaper. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1995. ISBN 0-929398-84-X. (Pages 141-181 discuss the demise of the Dallas Times Herald.)
• Gwynne, S.C. (January 2005). The Dallas Morning Blues. Texas Monthly.
• Rogers, John William. The Lusty Texans of Dallas, ch. XV. New York: Dutton, 1960.
• Schutze, Jim (February 1992). It Wasn't Murder. Was It Suicide? What Really Killed the Herald. D the Magazine of Dallas.
• The WPA Dallas Guide and History. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1992. ISBN 0-929398-31-9.

Blackie Sherrod, award winning sports writer and commentator. Author of several sports books.

External links

• Dallas Morning News
• Dallas Times-Herald from the Handbook of Texas Online
• Kiest, Edwin J. from the Handbook of Texas Online