Type | Daily newspaper |
---|---|
Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | AIM Media Texas |
Publisher | Stephan T. Wingert |
Editor | Stephan T. Wingert |
Founded | 1909 |
Language | English |
Headquarters | 1400 E. Nolana Loop McAllen, TX 78504 United States |
Circulation | 13,607(as of 2023) [1] |
OCLC number | 14375474 |
Website | myrgv |
The Monitor is a newspaper in McAllen, Texas that covers Starr and Hidalgo counties. It was owned by Freedom Communications until 2012, when Freedom papers in Texas were sold to AIM Media Texas. [2]
The Monitor's Spanish-language sister paper, La Frontera , shut down in 2009. [3] It shares content with the Valley Morning Star and The Brownsville Herald. Both are also owned by AIM Media Texas.
Both its former publisher, M. Olaf Frandsen, and its former editor-in-chief, Steve Fagan, have worked at Pulitzer-winning newspapers. Frandsen was editor-in-chief of the Odessa American in 1988 when the paper won the Pulitzer for spot news photography. Frandsen now is editor and publisher of the Salina, KS, Journal, a member of Harris Enterprises Inc. [4]
In 2017 The Monitor partnered with Quartz to report on the issues of climate change in McAllen and Reynosa. The project was funded by a grant from The Center for Cooperative Media. [5]
In 2021 The Monitor merged online with the Valley Morning Star and The Brownsville Herald. [6]
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