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42-616: An article in The Dallas Morning News in April 2007 describes Sniffex is a " divining rod " and states that "In a test by the U.S. Navy, Sniffex didn't register when two trucks passed within 20 feet, hauling a half ton of explosives." The Navy's counterterrorism technology task force tested Sniffex and concluded "The Sniffex handheld explosives detector does not work." Despite this, the US military bought eight for $ 50,000. Although high performance

84-455: A Geisha . Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. served as publisher of The New York Times from 1992 until 2017, when he was succeeded by his own son, A. G. Sulzberger . One of Ochs's nephews, Julius Ochs Adler , worked at The New York Times for more than 40 years, becoming general manager in 1935, after Ochs died. Another nephew, John Bertram Oakes , the son of his brother George Washington Ochs Oakes , in 1961 became editor of its editorial page,

126-527: A commercial paper that he called The Tradesman . He was one of the founders of the Southern Associated Press and served as president. In 1896, at the age of 38, he was advised by The New York Times reporter Henry Alloway that the paper could be bought at a greatly reduced price due to its financial losses and wide range of competitors in New York City . After borrowing money to purchase

168-554: A different printing partner included the Dallas Observer and Fort Worth Weekly . DallasNews Corporation , the paper's owner, announced on Sept. 13, 2023, it would offer buyouts eliminating up to 40 jobs, a 6% reduction in staff count. Buyouts would be offered starting Oct. 16. In May 2024, the company announced it would move its Plano printing operation, built in 1980, to a smaller facility in Carrollton . This would result in

210-522: A figurehead CEO, named Paul B. Johnson, to hide the involvement of two Bulgarian residents who actually controlled the company" and "then issued a series of what the SEC alleges were false press releases." One of the press releases included a claim of "'impressive'" results from tests conducted by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology . In reality, the tests were conducted by Johnson himself and

252-489: A fireworks show from street level. Beginning with 1896, there was issued weekly a supplement, eventually called The New York Times Book Review and Magazine . Other auxiliary publications were incrementally added, including The Annalist , a financial review appearing on Mondays, The Times Mid-Week Pictorial on Thursdays, Current History Magazine , a monthly, started during World War I , The New York Times Index , started in 1913, published quarterly, and comparable only to

294-815: A high place in American journalism, becoming widely read and influential throughout the United States. In 1901, Ochs became proprietor and editor of the Philadelphia Times , which was later merged into the Philadelphia Public Ledger . Ochs was the sole owner of the Philadelphia -based newspaper from 1902 to 1912, when he sold it to Cyrus H. K. Curtis . According to Wolfgang Disch, In 1916, Ochs communicated one of his most famous quotes, saying, "I affirm that more than 50% of money spent on advertising

336-619: A new partnership with KXAS at that time. Historically, the Morning News' opinion section has tilted conservative, mirroring Texas' drift to the Republican Party since the 1950s. However, on September 7, 2016, it endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, the first time it had recommended a Democrat for president since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940. This came a day after it ran a scathing editorial declaring Republican candidate Donald Trump "not qualified to serve as president." It

378-581: Is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas , with an average print circulation in 2022 of 65,369. It was founded on October 1, 1885, by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the Galveston Daily News , of Galveston, Texas . Historically, and to the present day, it is the most prominent newspaper in Dallas. Today it has one of the 20 largest paid circulations in

420-710: Is buried at the Temple Israel Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson in Westchester County, New York . Ochs' daughter, Iphigene Bertha Ochs, married Arthur Hays Sulzberger , who became publisher of The New York Times following his death. Her son-in-law, Orvil Dryfoos , was publisher of The New York Times from 1961 to 1963, and he was succeeded by her son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger . Her daughter, Ruth Holmberg, became publisher of The Chattanooga Times . Ruth Holmberg's son, Arthur Golden , authored Memoirs of

462-404: Is claimed in advertising for Sniffex, such claims have not been verified by objective double blind testing . During tests conducted at a public meeting by the president of the company, Sniffex did not detect test explosives when the user did not know in advance where they were located. Additionally, James Randi publicly called into question the validity of Sniffex and exchanged correspondence with

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504-504: Is squandered and is a sheer waste of printers' ink." The quote might be the origin of the common marketing saying, "I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half", a quote that has been attributed to John Wanamaker . Ochs was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1931. In 1884, Ochs married Effie Wise, a daughter of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise of Cincinnati , who

546-611: The American Civil War , but the conflicting sympathies between husband and wife did not separate their household. Following the end of the Civil War, the family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee , in the eastern, Union-affiliated part of the state. In Knoxville, Adolph studied in the public schools. During his spare time, he delivered newspapers. At age 11, Ochs went to work at the Knoxville Chronicle as an office assistant to

588-525: The Herald [an extant paper in Dallas] failed, he sent George Bannerman Dealey to launch a new paper, the Morning News , which began publication on October 1, 1885. From the outset the Morning News enjoyed the double advantage of strong financial support and an accumulation of journalistic experience, and within a month and a half had absorbed its older rival. In 2003, a Spanish-language newspaper called Al Día

630-500: The Index , published by The Times in London. On August 18, 1921, the 25th anniversary of reorganization, The New York Times employed 1,885 people. It was classified as an independent Democratic publication, and consistently opposed William Jennings Bryan in his presidential campaigns. By its fairness in the presentation of news, editorial moderation and ample foreign service, it secured

672-578: The Morning News operations for the next six decades. In late 1991, The Dallas Morning News became the lone major newspaper in the Dallas market when the Dallas Times Herald was closed after several years of circulation wars between the two papers, especially over the then-burgeoning classified advertising market. In July 1986, the Times Herald was purchased by William Dean Singleton , owner of MediaNews Group . After 18 months of efforts to turn

714-451: The Times for $ 75,000, Ochs formed The New York Times Company , placed the paper on a strong financial foundation, and became the majority stockholder. In 1904, Ochs hired Carr Van Anda as his managing editor. They focused on objective journalism at a time when newspapers were openly and highly partisan. They also decreased the newspaper's cost from 3 cents per issue to 1 cent, which led to

756-636: The 1800s by the Galveston Daily News . After over a century of publishing by the Morning News , the Almanac 's assets were gifted to the Texas State Historical Association in May 2008. By the late 1940s, the Morning News had built and opened a new office, newsroom, and printing plant at Houston and Young Streets on the southwest side of downtown Dallas . A notable part of the facade above

798-576: The 1920s, when the Ku Klux Klan was a powerful force in Dallas, The Dallas Morning News pushed back against the KKK with its news coverage and editorials. In turn, the KKK, which had a membership that included one in three eligible Dallas men, threatened to boycott the newspaper. In 1904, The Dallas Morning News began publishing the Texas Almanac , which had previously been published intermittently during

840-515: The Belo family sold a majority interest in the paper to its longtime publisher, George Dealey . By the 1920s, The Dallas Morning News had grown larger than the Galveston Daily News and had become a progressive force in Dallas and Texas. Adolph Ochs , who saved The New York Times from bankruptcy in 1896 and made the newspaper into one of the country's most respected, said in 1924 that he had been strongly influenced by The Dallas Morning News . During

882-708: The CEO offering one million dollars if Sniffex can do what the press releases claim. The Sniffex device should not be confused with SniffEx, a prize-winning chemical vapor sensor developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL). That sensor was originally called "Sniffex" until Homeland Safety International enforced its trademark and asked ORNL to stop using the name. In July 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed lawsuits against six company officers for driving "the share price from 80 cents to about $ 6 by issuing 33 news releases that contained mostly false information about

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924-719: The United States in 1846. Julius was a highly educated man, fluent in six languages, and he taught at schools throughout the South . He supported the Union during the Civil War . Ochs' mother Bertha came to the United States in 1848, fleeing the German Revolutions in Rhenish Bavaria , and lived in the South prior to her 1853 marriage to Julius. She sympathized with the Confederacy during

966-432: The United States. Throughout the 1990s and as recently as 2010, the paper has won nine Pulitzer Prizes for reporting and photography , George Polk Awards for education reporting and regional reporting, and an Overseas Press Club award for photography. Its headquarters is in downtown Dallas . The Dallas Morning News was founded in 1885 as a spin-off of the Galveston Daily News by Alfred Horatio Belo . In 1926,

1008-516: The city of Dallas, prompting responses from multiple local media outlets, including reporters from The Dallas Morning News . Notably, Meghan Mangrum, a then-reporter for The Dallas Morning News posted, "Bruh, national news is always going to chase the trend. Cultivate relationships with quality local news partnerships." Mangrum's tweet elicited criticism from Johnson, who claimed she was "letting [her] inherent biases show", and her black executive director, Katrice Hardy, asked if Mangrum would have used

1050-535: The early years of the Anti-Defamation League , where he served as an executive board member, and used his influence as publisher of The New York Times to convince other newspapers nationwide to cease the unjustified caricaturing and lampooning of Jews in the American media. Ochs was an opponent of a Jewish state in Palestine . Ochs died on April 8, 1935, during a visit to Chattanooga, Tennessee . He

1092-411: The elimination of 85 jobs, a 60% staff reduction. The changes were expected to save the company $ 5 million annually. A new printing press will be purchased for the new site and should be ready in 2025. On February 11, 2023, Mayor of Dallas Eric Johnson had posted on Twitter criticizing local news media for, in his view, having "no interest" in reporting on the second year of dropping crime rates in

1134-529: The front doors includes a quote etched in the stony exterior: BUILD THE NEWS UPON THE ROCK OF TRUTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS CONDUCT IT ALWAYS UPON THE LINES OF FAIRNESS AND INTEGRITY ACKNOWLEDGE THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO GET FROM THE NEWSPAPER BOTH SIDES OF EVERY IMPORTANT QUESTION                           G. B. DEALEY The complex at 508 Young Street would house all or part of

1176-637: The newspaper to supplement the income of their father, a lay religious leader for Knoxville's small Jewish community. The Chronicle was the only Republican, pro- Reconstruction , newspaper in the city, but Ochs counted Father Ryan , the Poet-Priest of the Confederacy, among his customers. At the age of 19, Ochs borrowed $ 250 from his family to purchase a controlling interest in the Chattanooga Times , becoming its publisher. The following year, he founded

1218-521: The newspaper's editor, William Rule , who became a mentor. In 1871, Ochs worked as a grocer's clerk in Providence, Rhode Island , while attending night school. He returned to Knoxville, where he was an apprentice to a pharmacist for some time. In 1872, Ochs returned to the Chronicle as a printer's devil , who looked after various details in the composing room of the newspaper. His siblings also worked at

1260-645: The newspaper's survival. The newspaper's readership increased from 9,000 at the time of his purchase to 780,000 by the 1920s. He also added the Times ' well-known masthead motto: "All the News That's Fit to Print". In 1904, Ochs moved The New York Times to a newly built building on Longacre Square in Manhattan , which the City of New York then renamed as Times Square . On New Year's Eve 1904, Ochs had pyrotechnists illuminate his new building at One Times Square with

1302-651: The newsroom and main offices (printing is done now mainly at a facility in Plano , north of Dallas). By December 2017, the move was completed. The former property at 508 Young was sold in October 2018 to a business partnership, which was looking into possible redevelopment opportunities for the complex, but in December 2018 the partnership backed out of the deal. Changes were announced in January 2019, which included layoffs and reducing

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1344-435: The paper around, Singleton sold it to an associate. On December 8, 1991, Belo Corporation bought the Times Herald for $ 55 million, closing the paper the next day. It was not the first time the Belo family had bought and closed a paper named The Herald in Dallas. [In]...1879 Alfred H. Belo was investigating the possibility of establishing a sister paper in rapidly developing North Texas. When Belo's efforts to purchase

1386-413: The paper's Business section to one separate section per week, on Sundays; the remainder of the week, Business coverage was placed in the paper's Metro section. A total of 43 employees were affected by the move. In late February 2019, several printing agreements were not renewed at the Morning News ' suburban printing plant, and 92 positions were affected by the change there. Publications that had to find

1428-1389: The paper's social media policy. This firing coincided with a Dallas NewsGuild-CWA protest, which Mangrum had helped organize. This culminated in the union filing a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board on Mangrum's behalf. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NBC News Wall Street Journal Politico MSNBC / CNBC / Telemundo Bloomberg Government Washington Examiner Boston Globe / Washington Blade Fox News CBS News Radio AP Radio / PBS VOA Time Yahoo News Daily Caller / EWTN CBS News Bloomberg News McClatchy NY Post / TheGrio Washington Times Salem Radio / CBN Cheddar News / Hearst TV AP NPR Foreign pool The Hill Regionals Newsmax Gray TV / Spectrum News ABC News Washington Post Agence France-Presse Fox Business / Fox News Radio CSM / Roll Call Al Jazeera Nexstar / Scripps News Reuters NY Times LA Times Univision / AURN RealClearPolitics Daily Beast / Dallas Morning News BBC / Newsweek CNN USA Today ABC News Radio Daily Mail National Journal HuffPost Financial Times / The Guardian Adolph Ochs Adolph Simon Ochs (March 12, 1858 – April 8, 1935)

1470-407: The product and the company's financial situation to earn a combined $ 32 million in illegal profits." In mid-July one suit was settled. In addition, the SEC charged Homeland Safety International, promoters of Sniffex, "of being little more than the front for a $ 32 million stock fraud scheme that enriched insiders at the expense of unsuspecting investors". The SEC complaint said the company "installed

1512-483: The results were inconclusive". While the stocks rose the insiders sold, and the stock was trading at one tenth of a penny as of July 17, 2008. In July Mark B. Lindberg settled with SEC and a week later pleaded guilty to wire fraud . The HEDD1 , reportedly a "Sniffex with a battery stuck on it", is marketed by the same company that markets Sniffex in Europe. The Dallas Morning News The Dallas Morning News

1554-430: The term "bruh" when addressing a white mayor, to which Mangrum, who is white, affirmed with a yes. Mangrum argued that her use of "bruh" stemmed from her upbringing as a millennial hockey fan from Central Florida, and D Magazine reported that her Twitter feed showed her use of "bruh" in response to "all sorts of accounts". Mangrum was fired from The Dallas Morning News three days after Johnson's reply for violating

1596-615: Was an American newspaper publisher and former owner of The New York Times and The Chattanooga Times , which is now the Chattanooga Times Free Press . Through his only child, Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger , and her husband Arthur Hays Sulzberger , Ochs's descendants continue to publish The New York Times through the present day. Ochs was born in Cincinnati , Ohio, on March 12, 1858, to Julius Ochs and Bertha Levy, both German Jewish immigrants. His father had left Bavaria for

1638-531: Was announced that The Dallas Morning News would move away from its home of 68 years on Young Street to a building on Commerce Street previously used as the Dallas Public Library's downtown branch. The Commerce Street address is one-third the size of the Young Street complex. Reasons given for the move included technology innovations and fewer staff, as well as printing presses no longer co-located with

1680-699: Was launched by The Dallas Morning News . Initially Al Día came with a purchase price, but it was later made available free of charge. It was published twice a week, on Wednesday and Saturday. Publication ceased in June 2023. Between 2003 and 2011, a tabloid -sized publication called Quick was published by The Dallas Morning News , which initially focused on general news in a quick-read, digest form, but in later years covered mostly entertainment and lifestyle stories. In late 2013, The Dallas Morning News ended its longtime news-gathering collaboration with previously co-owned TV station WFAA . The newspaper entered into

1722-455: Was the first time the paper had refused to recommend a Republican since 1964. Then, in wake of the approaching 2018 midterm elections , the Morning News once again endorsed a Democratic candidate: Beto O'Rourke , the challenger to incumbent Senator Ted Cruz . In 2024, the Morning News endorsed Colin Allred and referenced Allred's bipartisanship and Cruz's divisiveness. In late 2016, it

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1764-532: Was the leading exponent of Reform Judaism in the United States, and the founder of Hebrew Union College . In 1928, Ochs built the Mizpah Congregation Temple in Chattanooga, Tennessee in memory of his parents, Julius and Bertha Ochs. The Georgian colonial building was designated as a Tennessee Historical Preservation Site in 1979. Ochs fought anti-Semitism during his career. He was active in

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