The News-Herald (Southgate, Michigan)

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The News-Herald is a newspaper serving the Downriver area, south of Detroit. It is based in Southgate, Michigan, and owned by the Journal Register Company.^[1]

The newspaper is published every Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. The entertainment-focused Friday edition, first published on March 3rd, 2006, is their newest addition.

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The News-Herald newspaper has truly been the "Voice of Downriver" area for well over a century. The current News-Herald format was established under the Heritage Newspapers’ brand in 1986, when the late industrialist Heinz Prechter brought the old News-Herald (based in Wyandotte, MI) and Mellus Newspapers (based in Lincoln Park, MI) from SEM Newspapers Inc. and combined them into a single Downriver publication each Wednesday. Heritage Sunday, today called The News-Herald Sunday, was added in the early 1990s. The News-Herald’s history dates back to the 1870s, when the Rev. George W. Owen established it. The Mellus Newspapers started in the 1920s, subsequently flourished for decades under famous publisher/editor William Mellus. Today’s News-Herald dominates the Downriver Detroit marketplace, with its readership surpassing the total combined circulation of The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press in the same area. Since 1990, the newspaper has been awarded the Michigan Press Association’s “Best Newspaper of the Year” honor every single year – the only newspaper in any circulation category to be so honored. It has also been honored nationally throughout the 1990s, by the Suburban Newspapers of America and by The Inland Press Association.

Circulation: Sunday 63,150 Friday 41,000 Wednesday 74,000