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''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal'' is a newspaper based in Lubbock, Texas, U.S. It is owned by the Morris Communications Company. ==History== ''The Lubbock Avalanche'' was founded in 1900 by John James Dillard and Thad Tubbs. According to Dillard, the name "Avalanche" was chosen due to his desire that the newspaper surprise the citizens of Lubbock.〔(Doug Hensley, "Newspaper editors, publishers build Lubbock Avalanche-Journal into institution", ) ''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal,'' 17 May 2010.〕 The newspaper was sold to James Lorenzo Dow in 1908. In 1922, the ''Avalanche'' became a daily newspaper (except for Mondays) and a year later added a morning edition.. In 1926, the owners of the rival ''Lubbock Daily Journal'', editor Charles A. Guy and partner Dorrance Roderick, bought the ''The Avalanche'' to form ''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.'' The pair partnered with Houston Harte and Bernard Hanks, later of Harte-Hanks, as well as J. Lindsay Nunn of ''The Amarillo Daily News and Post''. In , Guy, Roderick, and Nunn bought control of the ''Avalanche-Journal'' from Harte and Hanks. Guy was named editor and publisher in 1931 of ''The Avalanche-Journal'', a position he held until 1972. The ''Amarillo Globe-News'' Publishing Company, headed by Eugene A. Howe and Wilbur C. Hawk, would later own the majority of ''The Avalanche-Journal''. In 1951, the Whittenburg family in Amarillo acquired the ''Avalanche-Journal'', after their Panhandle Publishing Company was merged with Globe-News company. In 1972, both ''The Avalanche-Journal'' and ''The Amarillo Globe-News'' were acquired by Morris Communications of Augusta, Georgia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Texas Press Association )〕 On Tuesday, May 12, 1970, the day after a massive F5 tornado had devastated much of downtown Lubbock — including the Avalanche-Journal building at 8th Street and Avenue J — the newspaper managed to publish an eight-page edition by dictating reports to its sister paper, the Globe-News, in Amarillo, Texas. That morning a print run of 60,000 copies bearing the page-one headline "Twister Smashes Lubbock, 20 Dead, Hundreds Injured," the first printed news of the storm, went out from Amarillo, 100 miles north of Lubbock. The May 13 edition, listing names of the known dead, was published in the same manner, and by May 14 ''The Avalanche-Journal'' was again printed locally.〔(Jeff Tinnell, "A-J's May 12 edition took the long way home", ) ''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal,'' 6 May 1990.〕 During strikes over crop support prices in 1977, an editorial published in the ''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal'' infuriated farmers, who blockaded the newspaper's delivery docks with their tractors. The unsigned editorial accused farmers of using the "anti-social tactics of union goons." Farmers demanded an apology and formed a tractor blockade, preventing trucks from the delivering newspapers. Editor Jay Harris spoke with the farmers and indicated the editorial was not intended to imply that the farmers were goons.〔(Farmers block newspaper. ) ''Ellensburg Daily Record.'' 21 December 1977.〕 In 1997, ''The Avalanche-Journal'' went digital with its content at (LubbockOnline.com ). In 2008, ''The Avalanche-Journal'' led an investigation into the 1985 rape conviction of Tim Cole, a Texas Tech University student who had died in prison in 1999 at the age of thirty-nine. The A-J’s three-part series on Cole’s exoneration in light of DNA evidence, “Hope Deferred,” helped prompt a legislative ruling in Texas permitting posthumous pardons, and on March 1, 2010, Governor Rick Perry granted the state's first posthumous pardon to Cole.〔(Elliott Blackburn, "Governor makes Cole pardon official", ) ''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal,'' 2 March 2010.〕 ''The Avalanche-Journal'' launched a full-color lifestyle publication, (Lubbock Magazine ), in April 2008. The magazine is published eight times a year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lubbock Avalanche-Journal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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