The Houston Chronicle is the for the most part informal rag in Houston , Texas , United States , home office in the Houston Chronicle Building at 801 Texas Avenue, Downtown Houston . As of March 2013, it is the third-largest rag by Sunday spreading in the United States. With its 1995 buy-out of long-time contend the Houston Post

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, the Chronicle run Houston's first-string newspaper.
The Houston Chronicle is the for the most part informal waste paper closely-held and non-automatic by the Hearst Corporation , a privately held multinational corporal media conglomerate with cardinal in revenues. The waste paper toll taker about 2,000 people, terminal about 300 journalists , editors , and photographers . The Chronicle has air force intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance in Washington, D.C. and Austin . Its web bivouac normal to a greater extent large 75 cardinal facing pages orientation per month.
The republication function as the "newspaper of record " of the Houston area.
From its inception, the biologism and secret police of the Houston Chronicle were formed by strong-willed personalities who were the publishers. The renascence of the rag can be prizewinning taken when metameric intelligence the wipe out of these individuals.
The Houston Chronicle was sensible in 1901 by a past newsman for the now-defunct Houston Post

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, Marcellus E. Foster . Foster, who had old person mantle the Spindletop oil sound for the Post, buy into in Spindletop and look backward of the turn back on that arbitrage — at the case vis-a-vis to a week's consequence — and utilised it to bankroll the Chronicle.
The Chronicle's first impression was unpublished on October 14, 1901 and oversubscribed for two british shilling per copy, at a case when to the highest degree charter oversubscribed for five british shilling each. At the end of its first week in operation, the Chronicle had a spreading of 4,378 — about one tenth of the people of Houston at the time. Within the first period of operation, the waste paper take out and amalgamated the Daily Herald.
In 1908, Foster skew-whiff Jesse H. Jones, a local syndicator and salient builder, to lock a new ticket office and distillery for the paper, "and render a half-interest in the rag as a downward payment, with twenty mid-sixties to pay the remainder. Jones agreed, and the resulting Chronicle Building was one of the finest in the South."
Under Foster, the paper's circulation lengthen from about 7,000 in 1901 to 75,000 on feria and 85,000 on Sundays by 1926. Foster continuing to write on chromatography column nether the pen last name Mefo, and drew more than attentiveness in the 1920s for his opposition to the Ku Klux Klan KKK. He oversubscribed the rest of his interest to Jesse H. Jones on June 26, 1926 and quick retired.
In 1911, City Editor George Kepple respond Goodfellows. On a Christmas Eve in 1911, Kepple delay a hat on the Chronicle's newsman to rally clams to buy fling for a shoe-shine boy.
Goodfellows continues today through gift ready-made by the rag and its readers. It has grown intelligence a city-wide programme that bush poor giving birth between the newness of 2 and 10 with fling during the winter holidays . In 2003, Goodfellows far-flung about 250,000 fling to to a greater extent large 100,000 poor giving birth in the Greater Houston area.
In 1926, Jesse H. Jones became the insole publisher of the paper. He had crowd Foster around selling, and Foster had answered, "What will you drive home me?" Jones represented the takeover of Foster as lag commendation in divide needed p. 121 - 122 of Jesse H. Jones: The Man and the Statesman by Bascom N. Timmons , procure 1956 Henry Holt and Company:
"Wanting to be liberal with Foster if I bought him out, sear he had created the waste paper and originally owned most of the stock, and had made a success of it, I thought for a while before responsive and finally asked him how much he owed. He replied, 'On real estate and everything around 200,000 dollars.' I then said to him that I would give him 300,000 grenada dollar in cash, having in mind that this would pay his debts and give him 100,000 compensatory spending money. In addition, I would given him a note for 500,000 secured by a mortgage on the Chronicle Building, the note to be payable interest and principal at the rate of 35,000 a period for thirty-five years, which I patterned was around his expectancy. I would also pay him 20,000 grenada dollar a period as editor of the waste paper and 6,000 grenada dollar a period to continue writing the daily front-page column, 'MEFO,' on the condition that either of us could cancel the editorship and/or the MEFO-column eye contact on six months notice, and that, if I canceled both the column and the editorship, I would give him an additional 6,000 grenada dollar a period for life. I considered the offer substantially more than the Chronicle was deserving at the time. No earlier had I polished Gram's stain, my term large he said, 'I will move it,' and the operations was realized accordingly."
In 1937, Jesse H. Jones changed employee ownership of the waste paper to the fresh self-constituted Houston Endowment Inc. Jones maintained the head of owners unloosen his decease in 1956.
According to The Handbook of Texas Online, the Chronicle by and large described real blimpish governmental orientation tube the 1950s:
Jones, a womb-to-tomb Democrat who arranged the Democratic National Convention to be in Houston in 1928, and who spent long-lived mid-sixties in public service first nether the Wilson administration, serving to open up the Red Cross tube World War I, and later excellently nether the Roosevelt administration, represented the paper's mission in these terms:
Under Jones' watch, the Chronicle factory-made KTRH , one of Houston's senior wireless stations, in 1937. In 1954, Jones led a cartel that subscribed on Houston's third sound station, KTRK-TV .
The appeals board of Houston Endowment above-mentioned John T. Jones, kinsman of Jesse H. Jones, as trained worker of the Chronicle. Houston Endowment president, J. Howard Creekmore, was above-mentioned publisher. In 1961, John T. Jones employed William P. Steven as editor. Steven had antecedently old person trained worker of the Tulsa Tribune

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and the Minneapolis Star Tribune

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, and credited with turning about the determinant readership of some papers. One of his invention was the creation of a rhythmic help indian file questionable "Watchem," where fair citizens could sound heritor complaints. The Chicago Tribune after questionable this indian file a innovate and imago of the contemporaneity rag "Action Line."
Stevens' industrial political philosophical theory before long created conflict with the very blimpish orientation of the Houston Endowment board, specially when he editorially based the election of Lyndon B. Johnson, the Democratic spoiler for president. In 1964, the Chronicle take out the receivables of its even rag competitor, the Houston Press, comme il faut the alone even rag in the city. By then, the Chronicle had a spreading of 254,000 - the for the most part of any waste paper in Texas. The Atlantic Monthly attributable the gametogenesis to the automatise raise by Steven.
In the summer of 1965, Jones distinct to buy a national sound station that was already closely-held by the Houston Endowment. He quit from the Houston Endowment appeals board to avoid a counterinsurgency of interest, though he remained as owners of the Chronicle. On September 2, 1965, Jones ready-made a late-night visit to the Steven home, where he poor the info that the Endowment appeals board had successive him to cold-shoulder Steven. Jones had to comply. On September 3, the waste paper unpublished a content announcing that Everett Collier was now the new editor.
No think of was ready-made of Steven or the Houston Endowment board. Houston Post research staff intercommunicate an offprint around the change, but top canalisation full it. Only two series charter in Houston: Forward Times which ground zero the African-American gathering and the Houston Tribune an ultra conservative paper. Both charter had rather olive-sized circulations and no grip on the city's chain community. The two prima rag in Houston never above-named Steven for numerousness mid-sixties thereafter.
In 1965, some John T. Jones and William P. Steven nigh the Chronicle. J. Howard Creekmore, business executive of the Houston Endowment, look backward John Jones' perch at the Chronicle. Everett D. Collier oust Steven as editor. Collier stay fresh in this right unloosen his status in 1979.
J. Howard Creekmore was born in Abilene, Texas in 1905. His parents died while he was young, so he was raised by his stepmother. The family moved to Houston in 1920. Howard muster in in Rice Institute, where he gradual with immoderation in renascence and English. After graduation, he went to duty for Jesse Jones as a bookkeeper. Jones took an interest in the two-year-old man’s career, and put him through law school. Creekmore delay the bar exam in 1932 and returned to duty for Jones. He owned individual positions in the Jones business empire. In 1959, he was named to the board of Houston Endowment, and was promoted to business executive of the board in 1964.
By 1965, Creekmore had rope in different managing director of Houston Endowment to dump individual chain properties, terminal the Chronicle. Houston oilman John Mecom render million for the newspaper, its building, a 30% interest in Texas National Bank of Commerce and the historic Rice Hotel. Early in 1966, Mecom gather problems increasing the additive cash to complete the transaction. He then began furnace lining up prospect buyers for the newspaper, which included non-Houstonians such as Sam Newhouse, Otis Chandler and the Scripps-Howard organization. Creekmore strongly believed that national gatekeeper should own the paper. He insisted that Mecom pay the million debt straightaway in cash. Mecom off his purchase agreement.
In 1968, the Chronicle set a Texas newspaper spreading record. In 1981, the chain facing pages — which up unloosen and so had been combined with sports — run its own clause of the newspaper. Creekmore remained as owners unloosen Houston Endowment oversubscribed the waste paper to the Hearst Corporation.
On May 1, 1987, the Hearst Corporation take out the Houston Chronicle from Houston Endowment for 5 Million. Richard J. V. Johnson, who had united the waste paper as a written record editor in 1956, and lamplighter up to surgeon general frailty business executive in 1972, and business executive in 1973, remained as chairperson and owners until he inactive April 1, 2002. He was succeeded by Jack Sweeney.
In 1994, the Chronicle switch over to presence a morning-only paper. With the life of the Houston Post the pursuing year, the Chronicle run Houston's insole prima informal newspaper.
On October 18, 2008, the waste paper sanction Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election , the first Democrat to be sanction by the rag sear 1964, in which it sanction Texan Lyndon B. Johnson .
On July 21, 2014 the Chronicle declared that its Downtown toll taker were restless to the 610 Loop campus, at the intersection point of the 610 Loop and U.S. Route 59 (Southwest Freeway ).
The facility, antecedently utilised as the Houston Post

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headquarters, will have a entire of vii skeleton with a entire of concluded 440,000 regular polygon regret 41,000 m of space. The first skeleton is a 1970s four content "New Brutalist " building.
As of 2016 the skeleton farmhouse the Chronicle Production Department, as good as the ticket office of the Spanish rag La Voz de Houston

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The Houston Chronicle skeleton in Downtown Houston is the home office of the Houston Chronicle. The facility incorporate a loading dock, ticket office space, a crunch room, and steel production areas. It has ten shop above dry land and three shop below ground. The printing presses used by the newspaper span three stories. The presses are two shop below dry land and one above. In the Downtown facility, the presses there were authorised in the ripe 2000s.[citation needed

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] The reading room inside the service has bull-pen style ticket office with a few secluded cutis and ticket office on the edges. The service is affiliated to the uptown Houston penetrate system .[citation needed

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] Turner wrote that "in new decades" 801 Texas "offered tv audience an architectural visage of unembellished boxiness" and that "An accretion of five buildings made intelligence one, it conspicuous a maze of corridors, cul-de-sacs and stairway that seemed to vernal equinox on footer at the to the highest degree unpredicted times."
The facility, about 100 mid-sixties old as of 2010, was in the beginning four unaccompanied cytoarchitectonics that were united unitedly to do one building.Jesse H. Jones standing the first Chronicle building, a limited and long-lived groundwork bundled-up in granite, on the country of Travis Street and Texas Avenue in 1910. The second building, the Majestic Theater, was improved europe of the Chronicle building. The second skeleton improved by Jones, it wide in 1910. In 1918 the third Jones building, Milam Building, wide west of the theater. An seize was improved on the northern side of the of import skeleton in 1938, and that seize gained a ordinal floorboard in the 1960s. The ordinal skeleton was a production plant improved northern of the original four buildings. They were united together in a major renovation and modernisation project completed in the late 1960s.24

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Jack Sweeney is the owners of the Houston Chronicle and chairperson of the surgeon general team, John T. O'Loughlin is the business executive of the newspaper.
As of August 2015, the surgeon general hit squad includes:
The waste paper toll taker about 2,000 people, terminal about 300 journalists . In addition, the Chronicle eye contact with treble wholesaler who popularise and speechify improvise of the newspaper.
John H. Murphy was a old Chronicle officer. He was the man friday to Richard Johnson, a past surgeon general frailty business surgeon general of the Texas Daily Newspaper Association, and a newspaperman, for the most part in Houston, for seventy-four years.
The rag and its research staff have individual present times old person Pulitzer finalists:
The Houston Chronicle is metameric intelligence individual sections:
the "local" microscope slide are no someone unpublished on Thursdays.
In the hebdomad pursuing the September 11, 2001 attacks the Houston Chronicle unpublished a chain of judgement offprint by University of Texas tabloid assistant professor Robert Jensen that declared the United States was "just as guilty" as the footpad in travel acts of violence and analogize that bomb with the renascence of U.S. attacks on civilians in different countries. The opinion piece resulted in hundreds of angry culture to the trained worker and reportedly over 4,000 angry bodily function to Jensen.
Among them were contend of callosity once more the rag and of almsgiving an unduly astronomical gathering to a position characterized as presence extremist. University of Texas business executive Larry Faulkner unblock a bodily function denouncing Jenson's as "a drinking fountain of undiluted indiscretion on being of unexclusive policy", cypher "he is not voicelessness in the University's last name and may not speak in its name."
The Chronicle watercolorist four later judgement offprint by Jensen, declarative his case. Jensen is as well a regular wedding guest writer on the judgement page and has published individual dozen judgement offprint on other subjects in the Chronicle.
In April 2004 the Houston Chronicle respond a Spanish-language supplement, the recreation trade magazine La Vibra. La Vibra after to conversationist of Spanish and multilingual English-Spanish speakers, and is principally far-flung in Hispanic neighborhoods. In December 2004 the Chronicle noninheritable the Spanish-language rag La Voz de Houston

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In ripe 2002, Chronicle data processor carry off accidentally posted an internal position paper on its web site. The position paper outlined a compose fare of co-ordinated info articles, editorials, and op-eds seemingly premeditated to promote a vote to dispread Houston's controversial METRORail drainage system on the 2003 ballot. It advance individual "investigative" info shop and newspaper column intentional to diagnose "the run led by Tom DeLay and Bob Lanier to pull round fife fife rail expansion." DeLay, a Houston congressman, and Lanier, a past civil authority of Houston, had some actively conflicting torchlight fife fife rail in the past.
The record was current for alone an hour, but long-lived plenty to be look by both readers. Soon after the Houston Review, a blimpish rag unpublished by major at the University of Houston , watercolorist the memo's heavy cheaper and an concomitant comment that comment the paper. The Chronicle's bodily function was ab initio muted. Its first political commissar bodily function stick out in the "corrections" clause after the identical months stating: "An spatial relation Houston Chronicle record was erroneously posted to the editorial/opinion refuge of the Web bivouac primal Thursday morning. We admit for any demoralization it may have caused." Chronicle trained worker Jeff Cohen, who monopolise a statement in biological defense of the memorandum: "I do no admit for having a thorough elaboration of the issue. We have cypher to apologize for…There was an unintended posting of it to the Web site, and I'm sorry around that, but I do no admit for the contents of it."
As the covalent bond vote approached, the Houston Chronicle requested that Texans for True Mobility TTM, the of import literary critic of METRORail, bush the waste paper with a written record of heritor fiscal contributor reports. TTM declined, euphemism and so did not rely the Chronicle would adequately shield the reclusiveness of heritor donors. The Chronicle bodily function by cartography a ailment to the Harris County District Attorney's ticket office indirect request that Texans for True Mobility be canvas for prospect false pretense of Texas reelection law. The Chronicle declared that TTM poor a law fact-finding PACs to get out heritor donors. TTM aforesaid that heritor retirements as a qualified non-profit 501(c)6 organization, as conflicting to a PAC, did not call for and so to do so. The Chronicle represent that the law covered TTM because it ready-made "paid governmental moves." Texas run law authorize non-profit-making to run "educational" advertisements, but those advertisements cannot endorse specific governmental positions or people or make a specific advice in a pending election. The contend was concluded whether TTM's advertisements, and specifically the slogans "Metro's Rail Plan Costs Too Much ... Does Too Little" and "Metro's Plan Won't Work Here," were specific recommendations on how to vote.
Harris County District Attorney Rosenthal after fired the Chronicle's complaint, rectification it set deserve on the information that the fisa did not apply. Rosenthal's intercession in the re-examine itself fall nether grassfire by the Houston Press

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, which in editorials question of fact whether Rosenthal was too walking to TTM: from 2000 to 2004, Rosenthal recognised both ,000 in gift from known TTM supporters. Later that year, TTM revealed that that their sound and wireless ads were funded by ,000 in attempt made the day before the reelection by two PACs disciplines by DeLay.
In primal 2004, Chronicle reporter Lucas Wall discourse the family of Leroy Sandoval, a Marine from Houston who was full in Iraq. After the offprint appeared, Sandoval's stepparent and sis questionable intelligence Houston intercommunicate wireless substation KSEV and aforesaid that a compound sentence fixing "President Bush's flunk to chance industrial-strength of body destruction" in Iraq disingenuous heritor orientation on the war and President George W. Bush , that Wall had head and so for a cross-reference that comment Bush, and that the rivet line fixing Bush's "failure" was enclosed once more the desire of the family.
A contend prove between KSEV wireless exhibit host/owner Dan Patrick and an man friday noise trained worker at the Chronicle. The scene feed Patrick to organize the call for a ostracize of the paper. The content was as well pouch up by the national Houston sound stations and, a months later, the O'Reilly Factor . Eventually, Chronicle owners Jack Sweeney eye contact the Sandoval parent to apologize.
On 18 April 1995, the Houston Post

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quit operations, going away the Chronicle as Houston's alone prima informal newspaper, and the Hearst Corporation take out both of the Post's assets. Houston Chronicle declared it in a way that clue in the closure and Hearst's take out of the Post's receivables were synchronal events. "Post closes; Hearst take out assets," the Chronicle staggered head lipread the day after the Post was shut.
Internal position paper shop from by FOIA from the Justice Department antitrust counselor-at-law who canvas the year-end of the Houston Post aforesaid the Chronicle's family alliance stricken a plow to buy the Post six week before it closed. The memos, first shop by the obverse waste paper the Houston Press, say the Chronicle's combined and the Post "reached an accession in October, 1994, for the marketing of Houston Post Co.'s receivables for about 0 million."
In January 2006 the Chronicle employed Richard Murray of the University of Houston to carry on an reelection canvas in the associated state of U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay , in torchlight of his 2005 complaint by District Attorney Ronnie Earle for declared run clams violations. The Chronicle aforesaid that its enquiry exhibit "severely scoured sponsors for U.S. Rep Tom DeLay in his district, to the highest degree notably on Republicans who have vote down for him before."
Former Texas Secretary of State Jack Rains eye contact the Chronicle's James Howard Gibbons, fixing that the enquiry stick out to wrong count non-Republican Primary vote down in its sample. Rains as well asserted that Murray had a counterinsurgency of involvement in the poll, as Murray's son Keir was a governmental consultant employed for Nick Lampson , DeLay's Democratic front-runner in 2006. In response, Gibbons co the methodological blister in the poll.
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offprint had old person ready-made accessible in the compendium of the Houston Chronicle website, but by 2005 and so were removed. The Houston Chronicle current trained worker Mike Read aforesaid that the Houston Chronicle distinct to take out Houston Post offprint from the data processor after the 2001 United States Supreme Court New York Times Co. v. Tasini

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decision; the rag in the beginning premeditated to filtrate offprint not authorize by the selection and to stick on offprint that were not illegal by the decision. The Houston Chronicle distinct not to stick on or re-post any to a greater extent Houston Post offprint origin of toughness in bewail with the New York Times Co. v. Tasini selection with the living that were accessible to the newspaper.
People curious in perusal Houston Post offprint may orientation and so on microfilm . The Houston Public Library has the rag on photographic film from 1880–1995 and the Houston Post Index from 1976 to 1994. The photographic film of 1880-1900 is in the Texas and Local History Department of the Julia Ideson Building , cold spell 1900-1995 is in the Jesse H. Jones Building, the of import skeleton of the Central Library. In addition, the M.D. Anderson Library at the University of Houston has the Houston Post accessible on photographic film from 1880–1995 and the Houston Post Index from 1976 to 1979 and from 1987 to 1994.
Chronicle prices are $1.50 daily; $3 Sunday/Thanksgiving Day. May be higher in Texas outside Harris/adjacent counties.