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''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 Technological 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.〔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 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 for exposing government corruption in Potter and Randall counties.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eea07 )〕 The organization noted the paper "expos() a breakdown in local law enforcement with resultant punitive action that swept lax officials from their posts and brought about the election of a reform slate."〔http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Public+Service〕 The company also purchased radio stations WDAG and KRGS (merging them to form KGNC in 1935),〔(Business @marillo Globe-News: WDAG made first broadcast with 10 watts of power 5/18/97 )〕 and NBC television station KGNC-TV (now KAMR) in 1953.〔(Trial and error signal beginning of KGNC )〕 On September 1, 1972, Morris Communications bought the ''Globe-News'' from the Whittenburg family. In 2001, the ''Daily News'' and ''Globe-Times'' merged into one morning edition, the ''Globe-News''.〔(E Pluribus Unum: Globe-News has deep roots )〕 ==Journalists== Journalists who got their start at the Amarillo Globe-News include National Journal Correspondent Major Garrett and Dow Jones Newswires columnist Al Lewis. 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amarillo Globe-News」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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