Texarkana Gazette

Infobox Newspaper
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caption = Texarkana Gazette front page from December 30, 2006, reporting the Execution of Saddam Hussein
type = Daily newspaper
format = Broadsheet
foundation = 1875
price = 50¢ weekdays, $1.25 Sundays
owners = WEHCO Media, Inc.
publisher = Maurice "Buddy" Kingcite press release | title= Maurice "Buddy" King named publisher of the Texarkana Gazette | publisher = WEHCO Media, Inc. | date = 2006-03-28 | url = http://www.wehco.com/Content/News/060328tniA.htm | accessdate = 2006-12-30]
editor = Les Minor
Mgr. Editor = Ethel Channon
language = English
circulation = 30,508 [http://www.powerreporting.com/knight/tx_texarkana_gazette.html Newsroom diversity report for Texarkana Gazette] . John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. June 2005. Retrieved 2006-12-30.]
headquarters = 315 Pine St, Texarkana, Texas
website = [http://www.texarkanagazette.com/ TexarkanaGazette.com] The "Texarkana Gazette" is a daily newspaper founded in 1875 and currently owned by WEHCO Media, Inc. It serves Texarkana and surrounding areas.

It was acquired through the consolidation of several newspapers in 1933 through the efforts of the Iowa-born businessman Clyde E. Palmer. Palmer established a newspaper and radio station chain that reached into Hot Springs, Camden, Magnolia, and Stuttgart. In 1952, Palmer acquired the television station KCMC which became KTAL-TV in 1961. It serves both Texarkana and Shreveport.

Palmer's "Texarkana Gazette" still circulates in Bowie, Red River, Morris, Marion, Titus, and Cass counties in Texas and Miller, Little River, Hempstead, Nevada, Howard, Sevier, Pike and Columbia counties in Arkansas. Newspapers are also delivered into McCurtain County in the southeastern corner of Oklahoma and into northern Caddo Parish in Louisiana.

The "Texarkana Gazette" has more than 130 employees and some 120 independent carriers that deliver newspapers in a 60-mile radius. The average circulation is about 34,000 daily. The previous afternoon daily, the "Texarkana Daily News", ceased publication in 1978.

Palmer determined that the key to newspaper success was (1) the readers, (2) the advertisers, (3) the employees, (4) the creditors, and (5) the stockholders, in that order.

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External links

* [http://www.texarkanagazette.com/ "Texarkana Gazette" official web site]