Sapulpa Daily Herald

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Sapulpa Daily Herald
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner Sumner family
Publisher Tom Quinn
Editor Jami Mattox
Founded 1914
Headquarters 16 South Park Street
Sapulpa, Oklahoma 74066 Flag of the United States United States
Circulation 4,490 daily[1]
Website: sapulpaheraldonline.com

The Sapulpa Daily Herald, "Creek County's Only Daily Newspaper," is a six-day (Sunday through Friday) daily newspaper published in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, United States. It is owned by the Sumner family, owner of four other Oklahoma papers.

Founded in September 1914 by John W. Young and O.S. Todd, the Sapulpa Daily Herald later merged with the older Sapulpa Evening Light -- the city's oldest newspaper, founded in 1896 as a weekly, and relaunched as a daily in 1908 -- when the Light's publisher, Oren Miller Irelan, entered a partnership with Young. By the time the two sold the Herald to R.P. Matthews in 1944, it was one of only two newspapers in the city (there had, at one point, been six).[2]

The Matthews family sold to Ed Livermore in 1959; he bought out his only competitor, the weekly County Democrat News, in 1965. Livermore, a Sapulpa resident after whom the University of Oklahoma journalism chair is named, was the last local owner. He sold the Herald to Roy H. Park in 1979; Park sold to Community Newspaper Holdings in 1997.[2] The Herald changed owners again in October 2007, when CNHI sold it and two other papers to the Sumner family.[3]

[edit] Current Newsroom

Jami Mattox - Editor

Judy Lambert - Assistant Editor

Ben Johnson - Sports Editor

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ CNHI-CAN Circulation, figures for an undetermined date, accessed February 18, 2007.
  2. ^ a b History of Sapulpa Newspapers, accessed February 19, 2007.
  3. ^ "Sumner Family Buys Three CNHI Dailies", Editor & Publisher, 2007-10-11. Retrieved on 2007-10-12. 


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