FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas (Covering Katy News) — The Fort Bend Star, a community newspaper that has served Fort Bend County for nearly half a century, is closing its doors, its editor announced Wednesday — the latest casualty in a wave of community newspaper shutdowns sweeping the Houston region and the country.
Editor Ken Fountain confirmed the closure in a farewell column, saying the move was “not entirely unexpected” given the broader collapse of the local news industry. Wednesday’s edition was the paper’s last as more local publishers are finding their biggest competitors for advertising dollars are not each other but Meta and Google.
The Star has covered Sugar Land, Missouri City, Stafford, Richmond, Rosenberg and surrounding Fort Bend County communities since 1978. It was purchased in 2022 by Street Media, a California-based company…