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{{Short description|Newspaper in Dallas, Texas}}
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| headquarters         = 2030 Main Street, Suite 410
| publishing_city      = [[Dallas]], [[Texas]]
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| circulation          = 43,810
| circulation_date     = June 2016
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'''''Dallas Observer''''' is a free digital and print publication based in [[Dallas]], Texas.{{r|AboutUs_2022}} The ''Observer'' publishes daily online coverage of local news, restaurants, music, and arts, as well as longform narrative journalism. A weekly print issue circulates every Thursday. The ''Observer'' has been owned by Voice Media Group since January 2013.

The ''Observer'' is a member of the [[Association of Alternative Newsmedia]]. It has won dozens of national and regional awards for its journalism, including two first places for longtime columnist Jim Schutze in the 2017 AAN Awards.{{r|2017_AAN_Awards}} In 1995, the H.L. Mencken Writing Award went to columnist [[Laura Miller (politician)|Laura Miller]], who went on to become the [[mayor of Dallas]] after leaving the ''Observer''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Goad|first1=Kimberly|title=WHO IS LAURA MILLER AND WHY DOES SHE HATE DALLAS?|url=http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1999/may/who-is-laura-miller-and-why-does-she-hate-dallas/|access-date=25 January 2017|publisher=Dallas Magazine|date=May 1999}}</ref> In 2007, two ''Observer'' reporters, Jesse Hyde and Megan Feldman, were named finalists in the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists.

== History ==
The'' Observer'' was started in October 1980 by partners Ken Kirk, Bob Walton, Jeff Wilmont, and Gregg Wurdeman as a weekly local arts and cinema review publication. In 1991, the ''Observer'' was bought by [[New Times Media]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Vane |first1=Sharyn |date=November 1998 |title=Consider the Alternative |journal=[[American Journalism Review]] |url=http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=912 |access-date=October 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606165524/http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=912 |archive-date=June 6, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2005, New Times  both acquired  and adopted the corporate name of [[Village Voice Media]].<ref>{{cite news |title=  The Village Voice, Pushing 50, Prepares to Be Sold to a Chain of Weeklies |author= Richard Siklos |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/business/24voice.html |newspaper= [[The New York Times]] |date= 2005-10-24|access-date=2022-03-14 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220119073643/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/business/the-village-voice-pushing-50-prepares-to-be-sold-to-a-chain-of.html | archive-date = 2022-01-19 | url-status = live | eissn = 1553-8095 | issn = 0362-4331 | oclc = 1645522 | df = dmy-all}}</ref> In September 2012, Village Voice Media executives Scott Tobias, Christine Brennan, and Jeff Mars bought Village Voice Media's papers and associated web properties from its founders and formed [[Voice Media Group]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Village Voice Media Execs Acquire The Company's Famed Alt Weeklies, Form New Holding Company|date=September 24, 2012 |url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/23/voice-media-group-acquisition/|publisher=Tech Crunch|access-date=September 27, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Mooney|first1=Michael J.|title=Why the Dallas Observer Was Sold|url=http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2012/november/why-the-dallas-observer-was-sold/|access-date=25 January 2017|work=[[D Magazine]]| date=2012-10-24 | issn = 0161-7826 | lccn = sn78000457 | oclc = 4020946 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201120214837/https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2012/november/why-the-dallas-observer-was-sold/ | archive-date = 2020-11-20 | url-status = live | df = dmy-all}}</ref>

== See also ==
* {{Portal-inline|Journalism}}

==References==
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<ref name="AboutUs_2022">{{cite web | url = https://www.dallasobserver.com/about  | title = Dallas Observer {{!}} About Us | date = n.d. | website = Dallas Observer | language = en-US | access-date = 2022-03-14 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220307113835/https://www.dallasobserver.com/about | archive-date = 2022-03-07 | df = dmy-all}}</ref>

<ref name="Staff_2022">{{cite web | url = https://www.dallasobserver.com/about/staff  | title = Dallas Observer {{!}} Staff | date = n.d. | website = Dallas Observer | language = en-US | access-date = 2022-03-14 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220310234412/http://www.dallasobserver.com/about/staff/ | archive-date = 2022-03-10 | df = dmy-all}}</ref>

<ref name="2017_AAN_Awards">{{cite web | url = https://aan.org/aan/2017-aan-awards-winners-announced/  | title = 2017 AAN Awards Winners Announced | last1 = Snead | first1 = Molly | date = 2017-08-01 | website = [[Association of Alternative Newsmedia]] | language = en-US | access-date = 2022-03-14 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210412221646/https://aan.org/aan/2017-aan-awards-winners-announced/ | archive-date = 2021-04-12 | quote = COLUMN circulation 45,000 & over {{!}} 1st PLACE: Dallas Observer: Jim Schutze | df = dmy-all}}</ref>

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==Further reading==
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*{{cite journal |last1 = Parameswaran | first1 = Radhika | date =  1996 | title = Coverage of "Bride Burning" in the "Dallas Observer": A Cultural Analysis of the "Other" | url =  | journal = [[Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies]] | language = en-US  | volume = 16 | issue = 2/3 | pages = 69{{ndash}}100 | doi = 10.2307/3346804 | eissn = 1536-0334 | issn = 0160-9009 | jstor = 3346804 | jstor-access =  | lccn = 76647397 | oclc = 46770686 | df = dmy-all}}
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==External links==
* {{Official website|https://www.dallasobserver.com/}}
* {{cite web |url=http://aan.org/gyrobase/Aan/viewCompany?oid=oid%3A21 |title=Dallas Observer |access-date=February 23, 2007 |publisher=[[Association of Alternative Newsweeklies]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070309150119/http://aan.org/gyrobase/Aan/ViewCompany?oid=oid%3A21 |archive-date=March 9, 2007 |df=mdy }}

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