The Herald News
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| The Herald News | |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | GateHouse Media |
| Publisher | Dan Goodrich |
| Editor | Lisa Strattan |
| Founded | 1892 |
| Headquarters | 207 Pocasset Street, Fall River, Massachusetts 02722 USA |
| Circulation | 20,627 daily, 20,520 Sunday in 2006[1] |
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| Website: heraldnews.com | |
The smaller of the two main newspapers in Massachusetts' South Coast, The Herald News is a daily newspaper based in Fall River, Massachusetts, USA. Its coverage area includes Fall River and the nearby towns of Dighton, Freetown, Somerset, Swansea and Westport, Massachusetts; and Little Compton and Tiverton, Rhode Island.[2]
The Herald News, formerly owned by Journal Register Company, was sold in December 2006 to GateHouse Media, which owns several daily and weekly newspapers in Massachusetts.[3]
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[edit] Sisters and competitors
The Herald News' main competitor to the east is The Standard-Times of the other South Coast city, New Bedford, Massachusetts. In its northern towns, The Herald News competes with the Taunton Daily Gazette, although the two were both owned by Journal Register and sold together to GateHouse.
Before the GateHouse sale, The Herald News was part of Journal Register's New England group, which included the The Call in Woonsocket, Kent County Daily Times and The Times of Pawtucket, all in Rhode Island. The Rhode Island newspapers were not included in the sale.[4]
Also associated with The Herald News, and included in the $70 million GateHouse sale, are O Jornal (a Portuguese-language weekly) and El Latino Expreso (a Spanish-language weekly), catering to the substantial immigrant population of the South Coast, and the Free-Press of North Attleborough, Massachusetts.[3]
[edit] History
Three Fall River newspapers combined in 1892 to form The Herald News: the Fall River News, which dated from 1845; the Fall River Daily Herald, 1872, and the Fall River Daily Globe, 1885.[5]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Audit Bureau of Circulation "eCirc" report for six months ending September 30, 2006, at www.accessabc.com, accessed January 7, 2007.
- ^ Audit Bureau of Circulations. "Reader Profile Report: The Herald News," March, 2006
- ^ a b Gavin, Robert. "GateHouse Buys More Mass. Papers." The Boston Globe, December 2, 2006.
- ^ Rowland, Christopher. "Chain Aims to Sell Papers in Region." The Boston Globe, August 29, 2006.
- ^ The Herald News: About Us, accessed January 7, 2007.
