DMN Editor Mike Wilson Resigns

Mike Wilson, the editor of The Dallas Morning News, will be leaving the publication at the end of the year, he announced in a statement to his staff on Tuesday. Wilson has been in charge of the daily’s newsroom for nearly six years, leading his staff through the July 7, 2016,…

Dallas Morning News Newsroom Employees Are Unionizing

The Dallas Morning News’ newsroom is looking to unionize, journalists at the newspaper announced Monday morning. Newsroom employees, along with those from the newspaper’s sister publication, Al Dia, requested voluntary recognition of the Dallas News Guild from parent company A.H. Belo. That request marks the first major step in forming a…

Google Has Maimed Texas Press, New Report Says

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 Is Quitting The Dallas Morning News

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…

Glenn Beck’s TV Station Set to Go Off the Air

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…

Only Thing Weirder Than a Trump Rally Is the Pre-Show

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…

Does South Dallas Need City Hall to Save It? Does Anybody?

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…