San Antonio Express-News
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The San Antonio Express-News is a daily newspaper in
History
The paper was first published in 1865 as a weekly tabloid-style newspaper under the name The San Antonio Express. At that time, the city had already had a number of other newspapers in a number of different languages. However, all the other publications went out of business, leaving only the Express to serve the city.
In December 1866, the Express made the move from a weekly paper to a daily newspaper, and expanded into a full newspaper by the early 1870s. The early days of the Express was marked by several leadership changes which almost doomed the paper, until a brand new company, the Express Printing Company, took control in 1875. The Express eventually became a daily morning newspaper in 1878.
In January 1881, a new rival newspaper, the Evening Light, was first published by A. W. Gifford and
Eudochia Bell Smith, who later became a state legislator in Colorado edited the paper's society section.
The 1920s was marked by expansion by Express Publishing as the company started one of the city's first radio stations,
In 1973, with the Light beating the Express and the News in circulation numbers, a new ownership group emerged. Australian native
By September 1984, the Express and the News merged into the Express-News and afternoon service was slowly discontinued, while the Light started getting into the morning circulation business in order to keep up. But under
On February 13, 2016, the paper broke the news of the death of US
In 2019, the Express-News sold its downtown headquarters building. The planned move to another downtown property was delayed as the COVID-19 pandemic led to the staff working remotely. In 2022, the paper relocated to the top two floors of the Light Building, which is named after its former tenant and Hearst property, The San Antonio Light. Following this move, employees began transitioning back to in-person work, and the news organization now operates under a hybrid model.[8]
In February 2024, newsroom employees at the Express-News and mysanantonio.com announced plans to unionize. In a statement, the San Antonio NewsGuild said it had collected signed authorization cards from 46 of an estimated 68 eligible employees — 68%. The journalists petitioned Hearst Newspapers for recognition as a unit of the Media Guild of the West. They said their aim is to “safeguard our future as a news provider.”[9] In April 2024, the newsroom staff voted 36-31 against unionizing.[10]
See also
References
- ^ DUVOISIN, A FORMER LOS ANGELES TIMES TOP EDITOR, NAMED EXPRESS-NEWS EDITOR
- ^ "2023 Texas Newspaper Directory". Texas Press Association. Archived from the original on 2023-05-03. Retrieved 2023-05-03.
- ^ "Top 10 Texas Daily Newspapers". Cision. August 3, 2016. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
- Hearst Corporation. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
- Hearst Corporation. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
- ^ Handbook of Texas Online, James Pearson Newcomb
- ^ Mullin, Benjamin (February 13, 2016). "How the San Antonio Express-News broke news of Scalia's death". Poynter.
- ^ Fu, Angela (16 June 2022). "'Back in the cockpit': The San Antonio Express-News moves into its new newsroom". Poynter. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
- ^ Danner, Patrick (February 21, 2024). "San Antonio Express-News and MySA employees form a union". San Antonio Express-News. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Danner, Patrick (April 12, 2024). "Journalists at San Antonio Express-News, MYSA vote 'no' on union". San Antonio Express-News. Retrieved 2024-04-12.