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The Dallas Morning News is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average of 661,900 daily subscribers. It was founded on October 1, 1885, by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the Galveston Daily News, of Galveston, Texas.

Today it has one of the 20 largest paid circulations in the United States. Throughout the 1990s and as recently as 2010, the paper has won nine Pulitzer Prizes for reporting and photography, George Polk Awards for education reporting and regional reporting, and an Overseas Press Club award for photography. The company has its headquarters in downtown Dallas.

The Dallas Morning News was founded in 1885 as a spin-off of the Galveston Daily News by Alfred Horatio Belo. In 1926, the Belo family sold a majority interest in the paper to its longtime publisher, George Dealey.

In 1904, The Dallas Morning News began publishing the Texas Almanac, which had previously been published intermittently during the 1800s by the Galveston Daily News. After over a century of publishing by the Morning News, the Almanac's assets were gifted to the Texas State Historical Association in May 2008.

By the late 1940s, the Morning News had built and opened a new office, newsroom, and printing plant at Houston and Young Streets on the southwest side of downtown Dallas. The complex at 508 Young Street would house all or part of the Morning News operations for the next six decades.

In late 1991, The Dallas Morning News became the lone major newspaper in the Dallas market when the Dallas Times Herald was closed after several years of circulation wars between the two papers, especially over the then-burgeoning classified advertising market. In July 1986, the Times Herald was purchased by William Dean Singleton, owner of MediaNews Group. After 18 months of efforts to turn the paper around, Singleton sold it to an associate. On December 8, 1991, Belo bought the Times Herald for $55 million, closing the paper the next day.

Historically, the Morning News has tilted conservative, mirroring Texas′ drift to the Republican Party since the 1950s. However, on September 7, 2016 it endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, the first time it had endorsed a Democrat for president since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940. This came a day after it ran a scathing editorial declaring Republican candidate Donald Trump "not qualified to serve as president." It was the first time that the paper had refused to endorse a Republican since 1964. Then, in wake of the approaching 2018 midterm elections, the Morning News once again endorsed a Democratic candidate: Beto O'Rourke, the challenger to incumbent Senator Ted Cruz.

In late 2016 it was announced that The Dallas Morning News would move away from its home of 68 years on Young Street, to a building on Commerce Street previously used by the Dallas Public Library for its downtown branch. The Commerce Street address is one-third the size of the Young Street complex. Reasons given for the move included technology innovations, as well as printing presses no longer co-located with the newsroom and main offices (printing is done now mainly at a facility in Plano, north of Dallas). By December 2017, the move was completed. The former property at 508 Young was sold by October 2018 to a business partnership, which was looking into possible redevelopment opportunities for the complex, but in December 2018 the partnership backed out of the deal.

Daily Sections:
Main
Timely information and editorials concerning national and international events, as well as major local events. Readers interested in breaking news turn to the main section.

Metropolitan
Local news and events throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area, North Texas and surrounding states. Neighbors who want news from their own backyard read Metropolitan.

Texas Living
A lighthearted and colorful section that features stories and columns reflecting Dallas-Fort Worth's unique lifestyle and trends. All ages who want to keep up on the best things in life can find them in Texas Living.

Sports Day
Our award-winning sports pages provide scores, features and behind-the-scenes details for national and local sports, games and teams. Sports fans count on our reporters and columnists to turn them into authorities.

Business
Financial information, issues concerning the workplace and stock listings. The business-minded and financially driven depend on this section to make informed and secure decisions.

Classified Advertising
Job seekers, new residents and growing families look for opportunities, ideas and answers in one of the world's largest and most comprehensive classified sections.

Weekly Sections:
Texas Taste (Wednesday)
Recipes, special events, coupons and wine reviews, plus shopping tips and regular columns with the latest gourmet ideas and quick bite suggestions.

Personal Technology (Thursday)
Loaded with information on all things electronic, news and features with tips showing how to make new technology work.

House & Garden (Friday)
A how-to reference for home and yard, with helpful hints, do-it-yourself ideas and background information on everything from decorating decks to repairing leaky faucets.

The Movies (Friday)
Hollywood behind-the-scene profiles, reviews, recommendations and Parents' Guide are included to help plan a weekend.

Guide (Friday)
The best source for finding restaurants, nightclubs, bars, area day trips, concerts and late-night events.

Religion (Saturday)
Covering spiritual matters of interest and detailing religious trends and issues in the Dallas-Fort Worth community, in the nation and around the world.

Travel (Sunday)
This award-winning, nationally recognized section provides previews, listings and reviews of destinations all around the world.

Texas & Southwest (Sunday)
News from Texas and neighboring states keeps readers informed with events happening outside the metropolitan area.

TV Week (Sunday)
The most complete coverage readers will find when they want to know what's on television -- broadcast and cable -- with features such as VCR programming information and title listings.

Comics (Sunday)
An American tradition and a Dallas-Fort Worth favorite -- over 40 nationally syndicated comics as well as puzzles and games to entertain the young and the old and bring families together.

Parade (Sunday)
One of the nation's most widely read Sunday magazines with local flare and advertising, this section is printed in brilliant color and filled with the features and personalities readers love.

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Quick is a Dallas-Fort Worth area free daily newspaper published from 2003. As the name implies, it is delivered in a quick-to-read format: a tabloid ranging in page count from 20 to 40. It is available free each weekday morning from street teams and courtesy news racks at Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) rail stations, office buildings, and other busy locations throughout the Dallas area.

Quick is a free daily paper that contains "quick hits" of the daily top news stories, weather and sports. It also highlights entertainment and lifestyle offerings in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex such as music, movies and local dining aimed at the 18 to 40 age demographic.

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Al Día is a Spanish language daily newspaper that serves the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Al Día is published six days a week, from Monday to Saturday. It is owned by A. H. Belo and is a sister publication of The Dallas Morning News. It has its headquarters in Downtown Dallas.