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19-560: The previous afternoon daily, the Texarkana Daily News , ceased publication in 1978. Rodger Dean Duncan , who later worked for two White House administrations and then as a prominent business consultant, was managing editor of the two Texarkana newspapers in the late 1960s. The paper earned the coveted 2010 General Excellence award from the Arkansas Press Association, competing against eight other large dailies, including

38-548: A Master of Arts in communications degree at Brigham Young University , where he also served on the faculty in the Communications Department and was managing director of University Publications. Duncan earned a Ph.D. in organizational communication at Purdue University . He also served on the Purdue faculty, teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses. While an undergraduate at Baylor University, Duncan started

57-509: A career in journalism as a staff writer for The Waco Tribune-Herald . He had never taken a course in journalism, but the editors of the local newspaper gave him a chance. Duncan later served as religion editor of The Salt Lake Tribune . In early 1968 Duncan joined the reporting staff at The Fort Worth Star-Telegram where he covered business and politics. His coverage of the Texas gubernatorial campaign that year, as well as his reporting on

76-484: A metro area. The Star-Telegram is the nation's oldest continuously operating online newspaper . StarText , an ASCII-based service, was started in 1982 and eventually integrated into the paper's current website, star-telegram.com. The newspaper's "Titletown, TX" video series earned three 2017 Lone Star Emmys, the first in Star-Telegram history, and an award for excellence and innovation in visual storytelling from

95-593: A prominent American military officer during the American Revolutionary War . His older brother is Stephen M. Duncan, who served as Assistant Secretary of Defense under U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and is a recognized expert on national security issues. Duncan lives with his wife Rean Robbins in their family home just outside Kansas City, Missouri . They are parents of four grown children and have 12 grandchildren. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram The Fort Worth Star-Telegram

114-431: A wider audience. In 2012 he published Change-friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions Into Great Performance. The book quickly became an international bestseller and won several awards. Duncan is also a frequent contributor to Fast Company and Forbes.com. Duncan is the second of Marion Claude Duncan and Helen Colleen Stone Duncan's four children. He is descended from the family of George Rogers Clark ,

133-600: Is an American daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and Tarrant County, the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex . It is owned by The McClatchy Company . In May 1905, Amon G. Carter accepted a job as an advertising space salesman in Fort Worth. A few months later, he agreed to help finance and run a new newspaper in town. The Fort Worth Star printed its first newspaper on February 1, 1906, with Carter as

152-646: Is the Fort Worth/Arlington metro area (four counties) and 14 surrounding counties. The newspaper's primary market is the four-county Fort Worth/Arlington metro area, as well as the Dallas and Fort Worth suburb of Grand Prairie. The Fort Worth/Arlington metro area is the western part of the fourth-largest U.S. metropolitan area, the Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington Combined Statistical Area. Fort Worth/Arlington ranks 29th most populous as

171-648: The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , which placed second. For more than 85 years, the main office of the Gazette was located at 315 Pine Street on the Texas side. In September 2016, the Gazette's business, circulation, advertising, creative services, and editorial departments moved to the first two floors of the Landmark Building at 101 E. Broad St. on the Arkansas side, while the printing and distribution remained in

190-700: The American Bar Association and the Associated Press . At the age of 24, he was hired as editor of both The Texarkana Gazette and The Texarkana Daily News . One of the reporters he hired to work with him in Texarkana was Stanley R. Tiner , who later would lead The Sun Herald newspaper in Biloxi-Gulfport, Mississippi, to the Pulitzer Prize. In addition to his editing and reporting, Duncan

209-847: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission , the Tennessee Valley Authority , the Bonneville Power Administration , the Federal Reserve Bank , and the United States Army . Duncan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Baylor University where he studied American literature and psychology. At Baylor he was active in student government, president of his senior class, president of the Sigma Tau Delta literary society, and an honor student. He earned

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228-580: The Star-Telegram was distributed over one of the largest circulation areas of any newspaper in the South , serving not just Fort Worth but also West Texas , New Mexico and western Oklahoma . The newspaper created WBAP in 1922 and Texas' first television station, WBAP-TV , in 1948. In August 2024, the newspaper announced it will reduce its number of weekly print editions to three a week: Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The Star-Telegram's circulation area

247-683: The advertising manager, and Louis J. Wortham as its first editor. The Star lost money, and was in danger of going bankrupt when Carter had an audacious idea: raise additional money and purchase his newspaper's main competition, the Fort Worth Telegram . In November 1908, the Star purchased the Telegram for $ 100,000, and the two newspapers combined on January 1, 1909, into the Fort Worth Star-Telegram . From 1923 until after World War II,

266-418: The early 1980s, Duncan's consulting work has focused on leadership development, organizational culture, human performance, and change management issues. His private sector clients have included IBM , American Airlines , Eli Lilly and Company , Consolidated Edison of New York, Hallmark Cards , Sprint , Black & Veatch , eBay , Texas Instruments , and many others. In the public sector, Duncan has served

285-785: The existing building. On December 12, 2017, the paper announced that it would close its Texarkana printing press in mid-January and begin printing in Little Rock, Arkansas , where sister paper the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is printed. In September 2013, the paper and editor Les Minor generated controversy when it refused to publish the wedding announcement of a gay couple. "The Texarkana Gazette publishes wedding, engagement and anniversary announcements related to marriages or impending marriages that are recognized by states in which it circulates," Minor said. Rodger Dean Duncan After working at F.I. duPont, Glore Forgan & Co. , Duncan started his consulting career in 1972. His first client

304-642: The national presidential campaign, attracted the attention of Jim Lehrer , who was then a young editor at The Dallas Times Herald . Lehrer persuaded Duncan to move to Dallas, where he continued to cover politics but also served as an investigative reporter. As a young journalist, Duncan interviewed people from a range of backgrounds, including U.S. president Lyndon Johnson , comedian Jack Benny , Baroness Maria von Trapp , cardiac surgery pioneer Michael DeBakey , historian Arnold Toynbee , pollster George Gallup , artist Norman Rockwell , and anthropologist Margaret Mead . Duncan's reporting earned awards from

323-451: Was also a freelance writer. His articles appeared in a range of newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor , The New York Times , The National Observer , and The Denver Post . He also wrote for magazines such as Parade , Family Weekly, Boys' Life , Writers Digest , and The Saturday Evening Post . As a young journalist, Duncan wrote “Tongue in Cheek,” a column that

342-506: Was syndicated nationally to small and medium-sized newspapers. Today Duncan writes an Internet column titled “The Duncan Report,” which focuses on leadership and performance-improvement issues. The column reaches opt-in business subscribers in more than 130 countries. In 2002, Duncan and Ed J. Pinegar co-authored Leadership for Saints , a book intended for lay leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , but also applicable for

361-715: Was the Executive Office of the President of the United States. He served as communication counsel to cabinet officers in two White House administrations. He later served in a similar capacity for Republican U.S. Senators Richard Lugar , Orrin Hatch , and Howard Baker . Another of Duncan's early corporate clients was the Campbell Soup Company , which hired him in 1978 to run their worldwide communications operations. Since

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