Newspaper Holdings, Inc. v. Crazy Hotel Assisted Living, Ltd.

OPINION

JANE BLAND, Justice.

This defamation case arises from a series of articles published in the Mineral Wells Index (the Index), a newspaper owned by Newspaper Holdings, Inc. (NHI). The articles reported regulatory compliance problems and official investigations into the Crazy Water Retirement Hotel, a local Mineral Wells assisted living facility, and examined the conduct of Charles Miller, president of the Hotel’s corporate owner.1 Charlotte Patterson, the Chief Compliance Officer of Integra-Care, a home health and hospice agency, was a source for some of the information contained in some…