Over the last decade and a half, the American press has been bloodied and battered, pushed to the end of its rope by vulture capitalism, evolving technology and economic shocks like the 2008 housing crisis. There was a time when it was hard to own a newspaper and not make…
Robert Wilonsky’s column Thursday in The Dallas Morning News will be his last as the paper’s full-time city columnist. After more than 30 years working for the Observer, LA Weekly and the Morning News, Wilonsky is moving on. He’s taking a new day job as the communications director for Dallas’ Heritage…
Among a few other things, 2019 in North Texas was the year of the crime story. On a weekly basis, cops, crime and courts took center stage, dominating local news, Dallas’ municipal elections and conversation. As the calendar turns over to 2020, let’s take a look at the stories to…
There’s a big brouhaha going on now within the journalism trade about an apology published a couple of weeks ago by editors of the student newspaper at Northwestern University. The editors of The Daily Northwestern said they regretted the way they had reported on a student protest. I really worry…
In a move that, frankly, kinda sucks from the never-too-much-to-write-about perspective, conservative yakker Glenn Beck’s Irving-based TV station is shutting down, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Blaze — as Beck’s media and TV empire is known — went on the air in 2012, two years after The Blaze’s web launch…
Big-time political rallies, more than anything, are about waiting. Doesn’t matter if the crowd is there to see a Republican or a Democrat, the president or the next big thing, they’re going to wait. To park, to get to the door, to get through the door and security, to find…
Paying rent in Dallas isn’t getting any easier, according to a new report from RENTCafe, a rental market analysis website, but apartment prices in the city and its surrounding suburbs aren’t quite the back-breakers that they are in other parts of the country. The average Dallas resident renting an apartment in August…
Last week, I wrote about some astonishing trends in property values in what has long been one of the city’s poorest, most racially segregated neighborhoods. Old South Dallas, which extends about a mile south from Fair Park, is seeing increases of almost 100% in as little as a year. After…
Just because something is below my radar doesn’t mean it’s below yours. Maybe you knew all about this, but I was astonished, mainly because it has been right in front of my nose for so long. The part of South Dallas I’ve been writing about for years, near Jim’s Car…
Big changes are coming to The Dallas Morning News’ website in September, as the struggling newspaper company teams with the Washington Post in an effort to improve its website. Word of the change came as the Morning News’ parent company A.H. Belo Corp. released its second-quarter financial statement. The good…
North Texas picked up more new apartment renters than any area in the United States during the second quarter of 2019, according to data released last week by RealPage. As of July 1, DFW has 10,446 more occupied apartments than it did three months ago, the biggest quarterly jump in…
NRATV, the most provocative arm of the National Rifle Association, a group that is all too happy to provoke, is no more, the gun-rights organization announced in a message to supporters Wednesday. Prior to the mother ship pulling the plug, NRATV broadcast from studios in Uptown. “Many members expressed concern…
Don’t forget. Early voting has begun in the Dallas June 8 mayoral and City Council runoff election. Now is your chance to go to the polls and vote against The Dallas Morning News. I’m serious. A little over a year ago, the Morning News hired a political propaganda writer from…
Those who believe that Dallas state Rep. Eric Johnson is a stalking horse candidate, the tool of a cabal of wealthy people opposed to Scott Griggs as mayor, might be called paranoid — if they weren’t so damned right. We have audio to prove it, thanks to an anonymous source…
For the last year or so, it’s been like watching watching an aunt or uncle’s gradual descent into madness as he or she consumed a little too much Fox News. Slowly but surely, The Dallas Morning News’ editorial page, the one that purports to speak for the city it serves,…
Pew Research Center is out with an analysis of how North Texans get and consume their news, and the breakdown isn’t kind to print and paid media, be it The Dallas Morning News or your friendly neighborhood alt-weekly. (That’s us. Hi.) An overwhelming share of DFW turns to the region’s…
Let’s be certain about one thing. Money is always an issue in questions of sincerity and truth-telling. The fact that you’re making money on it doesn’t automatically make what you tell me untrue, but I have a big right to wonder. If money is on the table, it’s on the…
The events followed a familiar pattern for newsrooms around the country that are slowly suffocating. A tweet from Dom DiFurio, one of the surviving staffers in The Dallas Morning News’ newsroom, broke the word just as the paper’s employees heard it: Layoffs were coming again. Word trickled out slowly for…
If you thought Texas’ Facebook fever swamp got especially weird as the 2016 election approached, you were right. According to a couple of new, third-party reports released by the Senate Intelligence Committee this week, the Internet Research Agency, the Russian troll farm behind the country’s fake news campaign to interfere…
The long journey traveled by Dallas’ CW33 TV station appears to be nearing its end. Monday, the massive media conglomerate that owns the station agreed to merge with another massive media conglomerate. This comes after a merger deal between the first media conglomerate and a third media conglomerate fell though…
CW33 no longer has a news division after a recent round of layoffs and cutbacks. The station’s parent company, Tribune Media, laid off 68 employees from its Dallas TV station, according to filings made by Tribune with the Texas Workforce Commission. The layoffs led to the cancellation of CW33’s morning news…
Ivan Garcia was born in Dallas and lived in the city for most of his life, but he was still shocked when he began apartment hunting in February. He didn’t know that his first apartment would cost so much — especially in his own hometown. North Texas has seen the…
