Houston Chronicle

The Houston Chronicle is a daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States. It is one of the 10 largest newspapers in the United States, with a daily circulation of more than 549,300. With the demise of its long-time rival the Houston Post, its nearest major competitors are located in Dallas-Fort Worth. It is the largest daily paper owned and operated by the Hearst Corporation, a multinational corporate media conglomerate with $4 billion in revenues. The paper employs nearly 2,000 people, including approximately 300 journalists, editors, and photographers. The Chronicle has bureaus in Washington, D.C., Mexico, Colombia, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, Beaumont and the Rio Grande Valley. Its web site averages 25 million hits per month. The paper is currently the subject of multiple boycott efforts including by a Houston radio station and the Houston Republican Party over allegations of a liberal political bias.

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Jack Sweeney is the publisher and president of the Houston Chronicle.

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As of May 2005, the editorial board included:

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May - 2005

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• President: Jack Sweeney
• Executive Vice President and Editor: Jeff Cohen
• Editor (Opinion pages): James Howard Gibbons
• Outlook Editor: David Langworthy
• Assistant Outlook Editor: Vernoica Bucio
• Viewpoints Editor: Judy Minshew
• Editorial Writer: Andrea Georgsson
• Editorial Writer: Claudia Kolker
• Editorial Writer: Tim Fleck
• Editorial Cartoonist: Clyde Peterson (aka C.P. Houston)
• Reader Feedback Representative: James T. Campbell

The paper employs nearly 2,000 people, including approximately 300 journalists. The paper's main political columnist is Cragg Hines, who is based in Washington, D.C. In addition, the Chronicle contracts with multiple distributors who circulate and deliver copies of the newspaper.

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Journalists - Cragg Hines

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Awards

• 2000: Houston's M. D. Anderson Cancer Center gave the Chronicle its Joseph T. Ainsworth Volunteer Community Award for making the newspaper available at a "greatly reduced rate" to the hospital and its patients. http://www3.mdanderson.org/news/ainsworth.html
• 2002: Holocaust Museum Houston awarded the Chronicle its "Guardian of the Human spirit" award. The presenter, Janis Goldstein, said the award was given because “They are honored today because the Houston Chronicle embraces the causes most dear to it with a depth and scope that goes well beyond what is expected.” and "the Chronicle gives of itself to build a community that will embrace tolerance, understanding, and diversity and will speak out against prejudice and unfairness of any kind." http://www.hmh.org/article.asp?id=9

Individual Awards:

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• 1989-1997: Carlos Antonio Rios, a Chronicle photographer since 1978, has repeatedly been honored for his photojournalism by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. http://www-new.latinosandmedia.org/jawards/awards-nahj-year.html
• 2003: James Howard Gibbons received third place in the "Hearst Distinguished Journalism Awards," an internal contest held between Hearst's newspapers, for his editorial piece When Will the U.S. Liberate Texas? http://www.hearstcorp.com/newspapers/property/news_distinguished.html
• 2005: White House correspondent Julie Mason was voted by readers of Wonkette (a Washington, D.C. political blog) the tongue-in-cheek "Best to Sit Next to on the Bus (for more than 20 minutes)."
• Leon Hale, a long-time columnist and author of 11 books, recently received the Lon Tinkle Award for Excellence Sustained Throughout a Career from the Texas Institute of Letters, of which Hale is member. http://www.winedalebooks.com/books/hale.html

Pulitzer Prize

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The Houston Chronicle is the only newspaper of the '10 largest' in the United States to have never won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism. http://www.pulitzer.org

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However, reporters at the newspaper have several times been Pulitzer finalists, recently for international reporting:

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• Dudley Althaus - 1992 finalist in international reporting for his articles on the causes of the cholera epidemic in Peru and Mexico.
• Tony Freemantle - 1997 finalist in international reporting for his reporting from Rwanda, South Africa, El Salvador and Guatemala on why crimes against humanity go unstopped and unpunished.

Press Club of Houston

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As the only publication with a circulation of 100,000 or greater papers in Houston, the Chronicle has generally dominated the Press Club of Houston's annual journalism awards since the closing of the Houston Post. In 2000 the Chronicle suffered some embarrassment after the Press Club declined to issue a first place award for "Best Breaking News Coverage" by a major newspaper, despite being the lone candidate. According to the Press Club's awards judges, the Chronicle's entries did not demonstrate "extraordinary creativity in approach or execution or inspired reporting or exceptionally compelling writing" that was deserving of the first place award.http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2000-01-13/news/hostage.html

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