Austin American-Statesman

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Austin American-Statesman
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Austin American-Statesman building
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Gannett
Founded1871;153 years ago (1871) (as the Democratic Statesman)
Headquarters8000 Metropolis Drive Building A. STE. 100
Austin, Texas 78744
Circulation
  • 26,455 Daily
  • 33,699 Sunday
(as of 2022) [1]
ISSN 1553-8451
Website www.statesman.com

The Austin American-Statesman is the major daily newspaper for Austin, the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas. It is owned by Gannett.

Contents

The paper prints The New York Times , The Washington Post , Associated Press , and USA TODAY international and national news, but also incorporates strong Central Texas coverage, especially in political reporting. The Statesman benefits from the culture and writing heritage of Austin. It extensively covers the music scene, especially the annual South by Southwest Music Festival. The newspaper co-sponsors Austin events such as the Capital 10K, one of the largest 10K runs in the U.S., and the Season for Caring charity campaign. In the Austin market, the Statesman competes with the Austin Chronicle , an alternative weekly.

Circulation

In 2009, the Austin American-Statesman ranked 60th in circulation among daily newspapers, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. [2] Figures from Scarborough Research show the Statesman — in print and online – reaches 68% of Central Texans in an average week. [3]

Following a national trend among daily newspapers, the Statesman has seen circulation declines in recent years. Austin is one of America's most Internet-connected cities, though not ranked in the 25 largest "connected" cities, and in a related trend, the Statesman's daily circulation ranks among those cities seeing drops of 5% or more in recent reports. [4] As compared to a U.S. national decline of 2.1%, the Statesman's daily circulation in the most recent six-month reporting period fell 5.6% to 173,527. Its Sunday circulation fell 5.5% to 215,984. Austin is the 11th-largest city (and the 35th-largest metropolitan area) in the U.S.

Politics

The Statesman endorsed George W. Bush in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, [5] and Republican governor Rick Perry along with every other Republican incumbent in 2006.[ citation needed ] In the 2008 presidential election, however, the paper endorsed Barack Obama. [5] The Statesman also provides coverage of Libertarian Party and Green Party matters.

History

Founded as the triweekly [6] Democratic Statesman in 1871, the newspaper was originally allied with the state Democratic party during Reconstruction. It began daily publication as a morning paper in 1873. After absorbing the Austin Tribune in 1914, it published as the afternoon Austin Statesman and Tribune, then became an evening paper and changed its name to the Austin Evening Statesman in 1916. [7]

A rival paper, the morning Austin American, began in 1914. Waco-based newspapermen Charles E. Marsh and E.S. Fentress bought the American in 1919 and the Evening Statesman in 1924. Merged under one company, the morning and evening papers published separately during the week and combined for a Sunday Austin American Statesman edition. The company continued separate titles until 1973, when all products became the American-Statesman, with four editions daily. [7]

Cox Enterprises acquired the Statesman when it bought the Waco newspaper company in 1976. In 1987, the Statesman moved to morning-only publication. [7] In 2008, Cox put the Statesman up for sale with most of its other newspaper holdings to pay down debt. [8] A year later, the company pulled the paper off the market, citing a lack of suitable offers. [9]

The newspaper was part of the subsidiary Cox Media Group, which joined the corporation's television, radio, and newspaper assets under one umbrella in 2008. [10]

The Statesman was named Texas Associated Press Managing Editors' Newspaper of the Year in 2013, 2014, and 2016, [11] besting Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas. [12] [13] [14]

In 2015, ¡Ahora Sí! was named the best Spanish-language newspaper in the country for its circulation size by the National Association of Hispanic Publishers. [15]

On March 6, 2018, the sale of the Statesman to GateHouse Media from Cox Media Group was announced. [16] Upon taking over in April, GateHouse said the Statesman would be the "flagship" of the expanding chain, noting its existing 240-employee design and editing hub in Austin. [17]

Becoming a Gannett property

In August 2019, New Media Investment Group, the parent entity of GateHouse Media, announced it had agreed to buy Gannett (the longtime parent company of USA Today , the Arizona Republic , the Detroit Free Press , and several other newspapers), [18] [19] and operations would continue under the Gannett rather than GateHouse name, at the Gannett headquarters outside Washington, DC, but under New Media's CEO. The acquisition of Gannett by New Media Investment Group was completed on November 19, 2019, [20] making the combined company the largest newspaper publisher in the United States. Immediately after the merger was finalized, all GateHouse Media URLs began redirecting to Gannett.com. The Statesman website was soon redesigned to match the format of the USA Today website and those of the other Gannett papers.

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The Austin American-Statesman publishes these community weeklies: [21]

Newsroom management and staff

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  6. ↑ Once every three weeks.
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  13. ↑ "2015 Texas APME Awards List" . Retrieved December 2, 2015.
  14. ↑ "2016 Texas APME Awards List" . Retrieved March 27, 2017.
  15. ↑ Statesman’s ¡Ahora Sí! publication wins multiple José Marti Awards Archived 25 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ↑ "American-Statesman being sold to GateHouse in $47.5M deal".
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