Pending a shareholder vote on Sept. 23, the Dallas Morning News will become the second publisher that the 138-year-old Hearst Corp. has bought in the state of Texas this year.

In February, it snapped up the Austin American-Statesman from Gannett, and while the price of that sale was not disclosed, a source close to the deal told me Hearst paid around $55 million for it.

Following the tie-up, Hearst will own the flagship news operation in each of the four largest metropolitan areas in the second-most populous state in the country. Alongside the Dallas Morning News and Austin American-Statesman, it also owns the San Antonio Express-News and the Houston Chronicle. The Dallas Morning News and Houston Chronicle are two of the country’s largest newspapers by circulation.

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