Houston Chronicle
The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States. As of April 2016, it is the third-largest newspaper by Sunday circulation in the United States, behind only The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. With its 1995 buy-out of long-time rival the Houston Post, the Chronicle became Houston's newspaper of record.
Front page of the Houston Chronicle | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Hearst Communications |
| Publisher | Nancy Meyer |
| Editor | Kelly Ann Scott |
| Founded | 1901 |
| Headquarters | Houston Chronicle Building, 4747 Southwest Fwy., Houston, Texas 77027 |
| Country | United States |
| Circulation | 142,785 (as of 2023) |
| ISSN | 1074-7109 |
| OCLC number | 30348909 |
| Website | houstonchronicle chron |
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The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper owned and operated by the Hearst Corporation, a privately held multinational corporate media conglomerate with $10 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., and Austin. It reports that its web site averages 125 million page views per month.
The publication serves as the "newspaper of record" of the Houston area. Previously headquartered in the Houston Chronicle Building at 801 Texas Avenue, Downtown Houston, the Houston Chronicle is now located at 4747 Southwest Freeway.
In addition to its daily print edition, the Chronicle offers Chron.com, a free online-only, ad-supported newspaper covering breaking news, weather, traffic, pop culture, and city life. Houstonchronicle.com, launched in 2012, is a subscriber-only paper that contains everything found in the daily print edition.