As the year draws to a close, TPA members are encouraged to start selecting their best work from 2025 to enter in the Texas Better Newspaper Contest.
The contest opens for entries on Jan. 19 on the ACES contest platform, the online system used for the past two years. Entries submitted should have been published during the 2025 calendar year. Deadline for entries is Feb. 13.
Beginning Jan. 1, 2026, the Texas Press Messenger will become a digital-only newspaper.
NACOGDOCHES – The Daily Sentinel has welcomed Jackland Berry-McDowell as publisher to lead the award-winning community newspaper.
Lavaca County celebrated a remarkable milestone recently as Henry Joe Jasek began his 70th year in journalism.
By MICHELLE PRICE, Halletsville Tribune-Herald
(Industry news as reported in Texas Newspapers and published in the December edition of the Texas Press Messenger.)
Beaumont Enterprise marks 145th anniversary
BEAUMONT – The Beaumont Enterprise has marked 145 years of publishing under the current name.
The Headliners Foundation of Texas presented Daily News Editor Michael A. Smith with the Charles E. Green Award for Opinion Writing.
“Each year the foundation recognizes the best — the journalists who report and write outstanding stories, take riveting photos and design content for impact and accessibility — with the Charles E. Green Award,” according to the organization.
