In 2003, The Belo Foundation, The Houston Endowment, Inc., and the William Randolph Hearst Foundation provided funding to the center to examine the crucial role played by newspaper publishers in transforming Texas into a modern state. The two year research project was conducted by Dr. Patrick Cox and led to The First Texas News Barons published by the University of Texas Press in 2005. The project uncovered how newspaper owners—such as A. H. Belo and George B. Dealey of the Dallas Morning News, Edwin Kiest of the Dallas Times Herald, William P. Hobby and Oveta Culp Hobby of the Houston Post, Jesse H. Jones and Marcellus Foster of the Houston Chronicle and Amon G. Carter Sr. of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram—laid the groundwork of the 20th century Texas newspaper industry.
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