Albany Democrat-Herald

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Albany Democrat-Herald
A sample front page of the Albany Democrat-Herald
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	Lee Enterprises
Publisher	Martha Wells
Editor	Hasso Hering
Founded	1859 (as the Albany Democrat)
Headquarters	600 Lyon St. SW Albany, OR 97321 United States

Website: democratherald.com

The Albany Democrat-Herald is the daily newspaper of Albany, Oregon, United States. Lee Enterprises owns both the Democrat-Herald and the Corvallis Gazette-Times; a joint Sunday edition is published. The newspaper covers Albany, Lebanon, Jefferson, Halsey, Tangent, Harrisburg, Brownsville, Shedd, and Sweet Home.

The Democrat-Herald started as a political tool for one of Oregon's first senators [1]. It was suppressed several times during the Civil War for its Confederate leanings before being reborn in 1865. It was first published as a weekly, then as a daily since the 1870s.

The Democrat-Herald traces its origin to the Albany Democrat newspaper, founded by Delazon Smith in 1859. The Albany Herald began in the 1880s. Its founder later helped establish Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park. Both the Democrat and the Herald were dailies in the 1880s and merged after the Democrat bought out the Herald for $25,000 in 1925.

Newspaper offices on Lyons

George S. Turnbull, a former University of Oregon School of Journalism professor from 1917 to 1948, was an associate editor at the newspaper after he retired from teaching [2]. He died in 1977. The university's Portland journalism branch is named in his honor.

The Democrat-Herald and other Oregon newspapers were bought by Capital Cities, then Capital Cities/ABC, then Disney and finally, in 1998, Lee Enterprises. Today, the Democrat-Herald has a circulation of about 18,000 [3].