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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Its opinion page editor since April 2005, James Howard Gibbons, has stated that "The Chronicle's editorial policy is neither liberal nor conservative, but based upon principles and pragmatism that transcend, or, less grandly, avoid partisan ideology." http://webadv.chron.com/ads/ads_i/insidestory/not_liberal.html

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"Journalism’s first loyalty is to the community and its citizens" - Jack Sweeney, Houston Chronicle publisher and president, September 18, 2002 http://www.hmh.org/article.asp?id=9

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"The White House, U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are in the clutches of politicians who are either extremely conservative or charlatans cleverly and persuasively pretending to be" - James Howard Gibbons, August 2004 http://donswaim.com/houstonchronicle.html.

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