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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…

OK, this just in, we’ve got the playbook now for the next Dallas mayor’s race, and it falls somewhere on a line between, “Oh, no, not again,” “Tell me you’re kidding,” “Wait, wait, this might be cool” and “Bring it!” Monday, The Dallas Morning News fired the opening salvo with…

This week, thanks to skewering Jerry Jones for the Cowboys owner’s national anthem hypocrisy — after demanding his players stand for the song, Jones left his hat on during a training camp rendition — WFAA sports anchor Dale Hansen went viral.  It wasn’t the first time either.

To afford the average two-bedroom apartment rent in Dallas without spending 30 percent of monthly income on rent, a renter must make at least $56,743 a year, according to an annual report by SmartAsset, a financial information website. The median rate for a two-bedroom Dallas apartment, SmartAsset found, is about…

Facebook announced last week it will begin expurgating from its pages types of speech that the site believes may lead to actual violence, as opposed to just offending the hell out of people. I’m thinking thanks, Mr. Zuckerberg. I get it. I see why you’re doing it, but I wish…

TheBlaze, the conservative cable media company established in Dallas by former Fox News host and chalkboard enthusiast Glenn Beck, seems to be struggling to stay afloat. And based on Beck’s recent CNN interview, that’s starting to get to its founding father. Beck built his media business in the old Studios…

Conservative media yakker Tomi Lahren had such a rough week that even Kathy Griffin came to her defense. The pummeling began Sunday. Lahren, a Dallasite and contributor to Fox News, was having brunch in Minneapolis when fellow brunchers heckled her, calling her, among other things, a racist. Lahren said later that…

Suicide is still a taboo in our society. That was what Steve Blow, retired longtime columnist of The Dallas Morning News, tried to convey in a piece he wrote in 2010 that landed him and the News in court, sued for defamation. Last week, Blow and the News won the libel…

Dear Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall: You and I have an issue in common, but I get the sense that you may not have gone through the difficult and deeply personal process of dealing with yours yet. We’re both from Detroit, but that’s not exactly what I’m talking about…

Conservative TV and radio show host Glenn Beck once had the ear or the ire of almost every political wonk and zealot in America, depending on which side of the political aisle they were on. These days? Well, let’s just say that his on-air crying fits would make a lot…

Late last week, thanks to in large part to a Deadspin-produced supercut of news anchors across the country reading from the same fake-news-bashing script, Sinclair Broadcast Group, the United States’ largest owner of TV stations, went viral. It wasn’t the first time for the company, which frequently sends its local…

Are you a recent college graduate in journalism or mass communications? Really? Didn’t want to learn computer coding, huh? Well, that’s OK because despite what you might have read on Twitter, America still needs reporters who can dig in, get the facts and break news. We at the Dallas Observer…

Last week The Dallas Morning News reported that the site selection team from Amazon had been in town looking at downtown Dallas as a finalist for Amazon’s new not-the-real-headquarters development. If that’s true – and you never know – I thought I should write to Amazon. But I wanted to…

Do you dream of being a writer? Do you want to push the boundaries of language to bring new insight into the human condition with your amazing, creative prose? Well, good luck with your novel, pal. Now move on. You newshounds out there, take a look at this: The Dallas…

March 5, 2018: A headline in The Dallas Morning News reads, “Where does our poop and pee go in Dallas? Curious Texas investigates.” By Jennifer Emily. June 5, 1971: With a double partial major under his belt in English literature and something else suggested by a graduation counselor two weeks before…

Quite literally, judging from their lead story right now. Is it lunch yet?…

Texas Rangers TV color analyst CJ Nitkowski caught a lot of flak on Twitter over the weekend after he liked a tweet from a group called the Proud Boys that included a photo of the U.S. women’s Olympic hockey team. The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated the Proud Boys, established…