Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
 Front page of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal on Sunday, April 17, 2011 |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Morris Communications |
| Publisher | Stephen A. Beasley |
| Editor | Terry Greenberg |
| Founded | May 4, 1900 |
| Headquarters | 710 Avenue J Lubbock, Texas 79401 USA |
| Circulation | 34,836 Mon-Fri 36,048 Sat 44,425 Sun[1] |
| Official website | LubbockOnline.com |
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal is a newspaper based in Lubbock, Texas, U.S. It is owned by the Morris Communications Company.
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History
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The Lubbock Avalanche was founded in 1900 by John James Dillard and Thad Tubbs. According to Dillard, the name "Avalanche" was chosen due to his desire that the newspaper surprise the citizens of Lubbock.[2] The newspaper was sold to James Lorenzo Dow in 1908. In 1922, the Avalanche became a daily newspaper (except for Mondays) and a year later added a morning edition. The Avalanche merged with rival publication the Lubbock Daily Journal in 1926 to form the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Among locals, the paper is commonly referred to as "the A-J."
The Amarillo Globe-News Publishing Company, headed by Eugene A. Howe and Wilbur C. Hawk, would later own the majority of Avalanche-Journal. In 1951, the Whittenburg family in Amarillo, acquired the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, after their Panhandle Publishing Company was merged with Amarillo Globe-News Publishing Company. In 1972, both the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and Amarillo Globe-News were acquired by Morris Communications Corporation of Augusta, Georgia.
On Tuesday, May 12, 1970, the day after a massive F5 tornado had devastated much of downtown Lubbock--including the Avalanche-Journal building at 8th St. and Avenue J--the newspaper managed to publish an eight-page edition by dictating reports to its sister paper, the Globe-News, in Amarillo, Texas. That morning a print run of 60,000 copies bearing the page-one headline "Twister Smashes Lubbock, 20 Dead, Hundreds Injured," the first printed news of the storm, went out from Amarillo, 100 miles north of Lubbock. The May 13 edition, listing names of the known dead, was published in the same manner, and by May 14 the Avalanche-Journal was again printed locally.[3]
During strikes over crop support prices in 1977, an editorial published in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal infuriated farmers, who blockaded the newspaper's delivery docks with their tractors. The unsigned editorial accused farmers of using the "anti-social tactics of union goons." Farmers demanded an apology and formed a tractor blockade, preventing trucks from the delivering newspapers. Editor Jay Harris spoke with the farmers and indicated the editorial was not intended to imply that the farmers were goons.[4]
In 1997 the Avalanche-Journal went digital with its content at LubbockOnline.com.
In 2008 the Avalanche-Journal led an investigation into the 1985 rape conviction of Tim Cole, a Texas Tech University student who had died in prison in 1999 at the age of thirty-nine. The A-J’s three-part series on Cole’s exoneration in light of DNA evidence, “Hope Deferred,” helped prompt a legislative ruling in Texas permitting posthumous pardons, and on March 1, 2010, Texas governor Rick Perry granted the state's first posthumous pardon to Cole.[5]
The Avalanche-Journal launched a full-color lifestyle publication, Lubbock Magazine, in April 2008. The magazine is published eight times a year.
In February 2011, the Avalanche-Journal became the first media company on the South Plains to launch an application for the iPad.[6]
Journalists
Journalists who got their start at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal include CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley.
References
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Specific references:
- ^ "ACCESS ABC: eCirc for Newspapers". http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/newsform.asp. Retrieved 12-17-2011.
- ^ Doug Hensley, "Newspaper editors, publishers build Lubbock Avalanche-Journal into institution", Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, 17 May 2010.
- ^ Jeff Tinnell, "A-J's May 12 edition took the long way home", Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, 6 May 1990.
- ^ Farmers block newspaper. Ellensburg Daily Record. 21 December 1977.
- ^ Elliott Blackburn, "Governor makes Cole pardon official", Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, 2 March 2010.
- ^ Terry Greenberg, "A-J's iPad app ready to come out of shadows", Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, 6 February 2011.
General references:
- "The History of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal". Retrieved on August 26, 2006.
- Diana J. Kleiner, "Lubbock Avalanche-Journal," Handbook of Texas Online. Published by the Texas State Historical Association. Accessed February 18, 2012.
External links
- Lubbock Avalanche-Journal official website
- Official mobile website
- Official iPad app
- Official iPhone app
- Official Android app
- Historical archive of Lubbock Centennial, 2010 Eppy award-winning site
- Morris subsidiary profile of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
- Lubbock Magazine
- BuddyHollyArchives.com: Buddy Holly news articles from the archived pages of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and The Lubbock Evening-Journal
- RedRaiders.com: Avalanche-Journal coverage of Texas Tech University sports
- LoneStarVarsity.com: Avalanche-Journal coverage of South Plains high school sports
- LubbockCentennial.com: 2009 Lubbock Centennial news articles from the archived pages of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
- 1970 Lubbock Tornado news articles from the archived pages of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
- Mar. 28, 2011: A-J named 2010 Newspaper of the Year in the annual Texas Associated Press Managing Editors contest
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