Houston Chronicle
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Front page of the Houston Chronicle
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Hearst Corporation |
| Publisher | John McKeon |
| Editor | Nancy Barnes |
| Founded | 1901 |
| Headquarters | Houston Chronicle Building, 4747 Southwest Fwy., Houston, TX 77047. |
| Country | United States |
| Circulation | 360,251 daily 1,042,389 Sunday |
| ISSN | 1074-7109 |
| Website | HoustonChronicle.com chron.com |
The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States. As of April 2016[update], it is the third-largest newspaper by Sunday circulation in the United States. With its 1995 buy-out of long-time rival the Houston Post, the Chronicle became Houston's primary newspaper.
The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily paper owned and operated by the Hearst Corporation, a privately held multinational corporate media conglomerate with $4 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.
From its inception, the practices and policies of the Houston Chronicle were shaped by strong-willed personalities who were the publishers. The history of the newspaper can be best understood when divided into the eras of these individuals.
The Houston Chronicle was founded in 1901 by a former reporter for the now-defunct Houston Post, Marcellus E. Foster. Foster, who had been covering the Spindletop oil boom for the Post, invested in Spindletop and took $30 of the return on that investment — at the time equivalent to a week's wages — and used it to fund the Chronicle.
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