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Texarkana Gazette front page from December 30, 2006, reporting the Execution of Saddam Hussein
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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | WEHCO Media, Inc. |
Publisher | Kirk Blair |
Editor | Les Minor |
Founded | 1875 |
Language | English |
Headquarters | 101 E. Broad St., Texarkana, Arkansas |
Circulation | 24,352 daily 25,741 Sunday |
Website | TexarkanaGazette.com |
The Texarkana Gazette is a daily newspaper founded in 1875 and currently owned by WEHCO Media, Inc. It serves Texarkana and surrounding areas.
It was acquired through the consolidation of several newspapers in 1933 through the efforts of the Iowa-born businessman Clyde E. Palmer. Palmer established a newspaper and radio station chain that reached into Hot Springs, Camden, Magnolia, and Stuttgart. In 1952, Palmer acquired the television station KCMC which became KTAL-TV in 1961. It serves both Texarkana and Shreveport. Through a reorganization in 1968, The Camden News in Camden, Arkansas, technically became the parent company for the Palmer newspapers, including the Texarkana Gazette.
Palmer's Texarkana Gazette still circulates in Bowie, Red River, Morris, Marion, Titus, and Cass counties in Texas and Miller, Little River, Hempstead, Nevada, Howard, Sevier, Pike and Columbia counties in Arkansas. Newspapers are also delivered into McCurtain County in the southeastern corner of Oklahoma and into northern Caddo Parish in Louisiana.