Portland Press Herald

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Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	Blethen Maine Newspapers, Inc.
Publisher	Charles Cochrane
Editor	Jeannine Guttman
Founded	1862
Price	USD 0.60 at news stands USD 0.75 at vending machines
Headquarters	Portland, Maine

Website: www.pressherald.com

The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram, collectively known as The Portland Newspapers, publish daily and Sunday newspapers in Portland, Maine

The Portland Press Herald is a daily newspaper published every day except Sunday. It serves Portland, the state's largest and most commercially important city, as well as the majority of Southern Maine.

The paper's Sunday edition, the Maine Sunday Telegram, is published every Sunday.

The newspaper, founded in 1862 on Congress Street, is the largest in the state in terms of both circulation and reporting staff. To this day, its offices remain in the Gannett Building on the corner of Congress and Exchange Streets, near the Old Port section of the city. The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram is owned by Blethen Maine Newspapers, Inc. which is part of The Seattle Times family of newspapers and is owned by the Blethen family. Blethen Maine Newspapers also owns Central Maine Newspapers, which publishes the Waterville Morning Sentinel and the Kennebec Journal. Daily, the Portland Press Herald delivers to a five-county area; Cumberland, York, Sagadahoc, Knox and Lincoln. On Sundays, the Maine Sunday Telegram is circulated statewide. The paper, like many of its counterparts, is sometimes thought by conservatives to have a liberal bias, but its pages include a range of viewpoints.

The Portland Press Herald has news bureaus in Augusta, Biddeford, Brunswick, and Sanford. The paper also operates 7 Regional Circulation Depots in Portland, South Portland, Windham, Yarmouth, Bath, Saco, and Sanford, The Press Herald's website is produced by MaineToday.com.