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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate. It’s best used as a snapshot of the media landscape at that point in time.

is a daily newspaper owned by Hearst Corp. It is the second-largest newspaper in Texas and , with as of 2014.

The Chronicle’s online operation has been praised for its innovation. A 2006 named the Chronicle , and in 2009, the paper was a Pulitzer finalist for its online coverage of Hurricane Ike. The Chronicle was cited for its use of dedicated blogs, chats, databases, and reader reports to cover the hurricane.

During recent years, however, the paper’s online traffic has declined, going from more than 3 million monthly unique visitors in 2007 to in 2009 and so far in 2011. In 2010, the Chronicle to share content and reduce costs. It has also teamed up with the Austin-based Texas Tribune to do .

The paper , , alongside its free site, , in 2012 as a dual-site strategy similar to that of the Boston Globe.

In 2012, the Chronicle was found to have published by the hyperlocal content provider with fake bylines, prompting the paper to .

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Texas Tribune, Hearst, Dallas Morning News,

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Nov. 7, 2016 / Joseph Lichterman

More than a thousand reporters and students are collectively covering voting problems on Election Day — At 2:54 p.m. last Monday, Houston Chronicle investigative reporter Matt Dempsey received a tip: Voters in Southeast Houston were being told they couldn’t vote, even though they had identification that complied with...

Sept. 21, 2015 / Justin Ellis

A cross-country network helps Reveal boost its investigative reporting power — One of the great benefits of working in audio, says Texas Tribune reporter Neena Satija, is that you have to get out of the office to collect sound. Satija was a public radio reporter in Connecticut before she moved to A...

Sept. 10, 2015 / Justin Ellis

The Marshall Project teams up with local news outlets to track executions across America — Harris County, Texas, is either near or at the top of the list of counties that execute the most criminals in the U.S. Harris County is also home to the Houston Chronicle, which means covering capital punishment is a reg...

Nov. 1, 2013 / Joshua Benton

New digital circ figures for newspapers are…interesting — Good piece at Poynter by Andrew Beaujon on the new U.S. newspaper circulation numbers released yesterday and the increasing silliness of digital circ totals. Circulation in September 2013 rose at The New York Times, fell...

Oct. 2, 2013 / Justin Ellis

The Dallas Morning News dismantles its paywall in favor of a bisected reader experience — When The Dallas Morning News debuted a digital subscription plan in 2011, publisher Jim Moroney acknowledged that the strategy had its risks. The Morning News paywall, which arrived shortly before the more talked-about o...

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