23 Facts About Houston Chronicle

Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.

Houston Chronicle is the largest daily paper owned and operated by the Hearst Corporation, a privately held multinational corporate media conglomerate with $10 billion in revenues.

Previously headquartered in the Houston Chronicle Building at 801 Texas Avenue, Downtown Houston, the Houston Chronicle is located at 4747 Southwest Freeway.

From its inception, the practices and policies of the Houston Chronicle were shaped by strong-willed personalities who were the publishers.

Houston Chronicle was founded in 1901 by a former reporter for the now-defunct Houston Post, Marcellus E Foster.

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Under Jones' watch, the Chronicle bought KTRH, one of Houston's oldest radio stations, in 1937.

Board of Houston Endowment named John T Jones, nephew of Jesse H Jones, as editor of the Chronicle.

In 1964, the Chronicle purchased the assets of its evening newspaper competitor, the Houston Press, becoming the only evening newspaper in the city.

Houston Chronicle resigned from the Houston Endowment board to avoid a conflict of interest, though he remained as publisher of the Chronicle.

Houston Chronicle's parents died while he was young, so he was raised by his stepmother.

Houston Chronicle held several positions in the Jones business empire.

Houston Chronicle then began lining up potential buyers for the newspaper, which included non-Houstonians such as Sam Newhouse, Otis Chandler and the Scripps-Howard organization.

Houston Chronicle insisted that Mecom pay the $84 million debt immediately in cash.

Creekmore remained as publisher until Houston Chronicle Endowment sold the paper to the Hearst Corporation.

Locally, the Houston Chronicle endorsed Wendy Davis for governor in 2014, and Sylvester Turner for mayor in 2015.

Additionally, the Houston Chronicle initially endorsed Jeb Bush for the 2016 Republican primary, but did not endorse any other candidate after he dropped out.

Barnes never explained why the Houston Chronicle decided against being transparent to it readers immediately, instead of waiting for word to leak to the extent that other news outlets started planning stories.

Barnes said Houston Chronicle researchers had problems finding a number of sources quoted in Ward's story, so the newspaper hired investigative journalist David Wood, a Pulitzer Prize winner.

Houston Chronicle building in Downtown Houston was the headquarters of the Houston Chronicle.

Jesse H Jones erected the first Chronicle building, a narrow and long structure clad in granite, on the corner of Travis Street and Texas Avenue in 1910.

In December 2004 the Chronicle acquired the Spanish-language newspaper La Voz de Houston.

Internal memos obtained via FOIA from the Justice Department antitrust attorneys who investigated the closing of the Houston Post said the Chronicle's parent organization struck a deal to buy the Post six months before it closed.

The Houston Chronicle decided not to post or re-post any more Houston Post articles because of difficulties in complying with the New York Times Co.