I guess I was a day, maybe two, late in assessing the future of the Amarillo Globe-News.
I conjectured that a move was upcoming. Then I saw a story today on Page 1 of the Globe-News. They’ve made the move. It’s done.
The newspaper, a longstanding institution in Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle, now is tucked on an upper floor of the FirstBank Southwest Tower in downtown Amarillo.
It’s still a sad move. It saddens me terribly that the newspaper that once was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in journalism excellence will no longer be visible to onlookers.
I don’t know what the future holds for daily journalism in Amarillo. The trend doesn’t portend a bright future. The paper has slashed its staff; it has cut it resources; it has scaled back its presence; it prints the daily editions in Lubbock.
Does it cover the news with the depth and breadth it once did? No. Not by a long shot.
But now the Globe-News is ensconced in a skyscraper with a bank’s name on it! The paper’s long-standing office at Ninth and Harrison has gone dark.
Dammit!
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It is indeed a sad way to see a newspaper die. After years of writing about empty buildings in Downtown Amarillo, they have now delivered two more buildings to the landscape. As to the Pulitizer, I understand it was lost or stolen during the move.