| The Monitor GTLO | |
| Type: | Daily newspaper |
| Format: | Broadsheet |
| Foundation: | 1909 |
| Owners: | AIM Media Texas |
| Publisher: | Stephan T. Wingert |
| Editor: | Stephan T. Wingert |
| Language: | English |
| Circulation: | 13,607 |
| Circulation Date: | 2023 |
| Circulation Ref: | [1] |
| Headquarters: | 1400 E. Nolana Loop McAllen, TX 78504 United States |
| Oclc: | 14375474 |
The Monitor is a newspaper in McAllen, Texas that covers Starr and Hidalgo counties. It was owned by Freedom Communications until 2012, when Freedom papers in Texas were sold to AIM Media Texas.[2]
The Monitors Spanish-language sister paper, La Frontera, shut down in 2009.[3] It shares content with the Valley Morning Star and The Brownsville Herald. Both are also owned by AIM Media Texas.
Both its former publisher, M. Olaf Frandsen, and its former editor-in-chief, Steve Fagan, have worked at Pulitzer-winning newspapers. Frandsen was editor-in-chief of the Odessa American in 1988 when the paper won the Pulitzer for spot news photography. Frandsen now is editor and publisher of the Salina, KS, Journal, a member of Harris Enterprises Inc.[4]
In 2017 The Monitor partnered with Quartz to report on the issues of climate change in McAllen and Reynosa. The project was funded by a grant from The Center for Cooperative Media.[5]
In 2021 The Monitor merged online with the Valley Morning Star and The Brownsville Herald.[6]