Polk County Publishing Company Inc.’s owner, Alvin Holley, sold the Houston County Courier, a newspaper formerly in the PCPC group, to Kelly Nicol, owner and publisher of The Messenger, a competitor newspaper in Houston County. The merged newspapers are now the Houston County Messenger. The final issue of the Courier came out April 13.

HENDERSON — M. Roberts Media, owner of several East Texas newspapers, including the Longview News-Journal and Tyler Morning Telegraph, has acquired The Henderson News.

The acquisition was formalized March 29. Terms of the deal between M. Roberts Media and Henderson News owner Hartman Newspapers were not disclosed.

Promotions, new hires and other staff changes at Texas newspapers.

Katecey Harrell, Tyler Morning Telegraph

TYLER - Katecey Harrell has joined the Tyler Morning Telegraph staff as a multimedia reporter, covering nonlocal government and breaking news.

Obituaries published in the May 2023 edition of the Texas Press Messenger.

Roger Dewayne Cline

Roger Dewayne Cline, 54, managing editor of the Big Spring Herald, died April 19 in San Angelo following heart surgery.

AUSTIN — Texas Newspaper Foundation announced the selection of three exemplary journalists — Dave Campbell (deceased), Suzanne Bardwell (deceased), and Larry C. Jackson (retired)— into the Texas Newspaper Foundation Hall of Fame for the year 2023.

AUSTIN — It’s a perfectly natural question for an editor to ask an Austin journalist at this point in an odd-numbered year, when the Legislature passes the halfway point in its biennial session: “What’s going on in the Capitol?”