Your guide to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s new print schedule and expanded content
For the last several weeks, we’ve been preparing for major changes with the print version of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
This week is when it all begins.
To help you be ready — and continue to stay informed about what’s happening in our community (all while keeping up with your crossword puzzles and comics!) — here’s a guide with everything you need to know, as well as why we are making these changes.
Print schedule: Starting Sunday, Oct. 6, the Star-Telegram will publish print newspapers on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The papers will be delivered by the U.S. Postal Service, starting Oct. 9. The Sunday newspapers will arrive on Saturdays, starting Oct. 12. Single copies of the newspaper will be available on those days at select retail locations.
Digital editions: All of our news content will continue to be published digitally throughout the day, seven days a week, on star-telegram.com, on our mobile app and in our recently updated e-Edition, which can be accessed with your mobile phone or tablet. Top stories and all of the latest news appear first on our digital platforms. The new e-Edition, which we now call the Edition, has later deadlines than our print paper and is best for those who enjoy an organized, curated news-reading experience online, like flipping through a printed paper. It has a robust offering of local, national and global news, national sports, multimedia elements, games and puzzles.
How to find free newsletters: If you haven’t signed up for our array of free email newsletters, now’s a good time. We have more than a dozen newsletters that deliver headlines to your inbox about the topics you’re interested in — breaking news, Texas politics, business, TCU sports, the Dallas Cowboys, high school sports and more. “From the Newsroom” is a subscriber-exclusive newsletter. National newsletters like Savvy Fare, with recipes, are also available.
To see all we have to offer, go to star-telegram.com/newsletters. You can also find the link on our homepage; click the drop-down menu on the top left, scroll down to “Stay Connected,” and click on “Newsletters.”
Where to find your favorite content
News: The print editions will have more pages of news and lifestyle content, and we’ll continue to place our top local journalism in print. On Sundays, in addition to our award-winning reporting, you’ll find health, wellness, personal finance and technology stories. As always, stories will appear online — on the website and often in the digital Edition — before they are featured in the print sections.
Print replicas: You can still read the digital version of the print paper on the days the paper publishes. To find it, go to star-telegram.com and click “Read today’s Edition” at the top. If you have our phone app, tap the “Editions” button.
Puzzles: Our puzzles from daily print editions — plus many more new ones — are available every day in the digital Edition. Moving forward, the print newspapers will include the puzzles from non-print days — so the Wednesday paper, for example, will have the Monday and Tuesday puzzles, too.
Comics: Comics will be published daily in the digital Edition, and each print edition will include that day’s comics.
TV listings: TV listings, including the sports-specific listings, will be published daily in the digital Edition. In print, you’ll see the listings for that specific day.
Weather: Weather will run daily in the digital Edition and in each print edition. A weather graphic with a seven-day forecast will run on print days. The Sunday newspaper (which will be delivered Saturday), will include the Saturday night forecast as well.
Obituaries and death notices: Obits and death notices run daily in the digital Edition and in each print edition.
Evolution of local news
This is an historic moment in the evolution of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as a sustainable digital news media organization.
I realize, too, that this is an uncomfortable time for those of us used to reading the printed paper with our morning coffee. The reality today, though, is that the vast majority of our readers get their news online. The business model of producing and delivering a daily printed newspaper for a shrinking number of readers who prefer it is no longer sustainable. The good news is that the Star-Telegram’s online readership and numbers of subscribers are growing. Our company is investing in the future of the Star-Telegram and our local journalism.
What isn’t changing is our newsroom’s seven-days-a-week drive to deliver hard-hitting watchdog journalism, breaking news, sports coverage and analysis, visual storytelling and essential reporting about our communities that you won’t find anywhere else. No one else is as invested in covering Fort Worth with the resources, talent and commitment to the long haul as the Star-Telegram.
We will continue to evolve with new technology and digital innovation. A big part of our company’s investment in our future includes preparing for how AI is changing our world, including the threat of misinformation. It is more important than ever to have dedicated local journalists you can trust, dedicated to fairness, accuracy and transparency.
If you haven’t already, I encourage you to dive into the digital offerings of the Star-Telegram, which are far more timely and voluminous than what is in print. Plus, as a subscriber, you also have access to the websites of our other McClatchy news organizations across the country, including the Miami Herald, Kansas City Star and more than two dozen other markets. If you need help with that or have questions, you can contact customerservice@star-telegram.com.
Thank you for supporting local journalism with your subscription and readership. You make what we do at the Star-Telegram possible.
