Washington Times-Herald

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For the current newspaper in Washington, Indiana, see Washington Times-Herald (Indiana).

For the current newspaper in Washington, D. C. with a similar name, see Washington Times.

This article does not cite any references or sources. (February 2008) Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed.

The Washington Times-Herald was an American daily newspaper once published in Washington, D.C.

The Times-Herald was created by the 1939 merger of two former Hearst dailies, the Washington Times (not to be confused with the current Washington Times) and the Washington Herald. Cissy Patterson ran the merged publication until her death in 1948; it was subsequently purchased by her cousin, Robert R. McCormick (then-publisher and editor of the Chicago Tribune), along with Cissy Patterson's brother Joseph. Both Patterson and McCormick maintained an arch-conservative editorial stance for the paper.

In 1954, the Times-Herald was purchased by, and merged into its more liberal rival, the Washington Post. For a time, the combined paper was officially known as the Washington Post and Times-Herald; the Times-Herald portion of the masthead became less and less prominent in ensuing years, however, and was dropped entirely in 1973.