| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Lee Enterprises |
| Publisher | Rona Rahlf |
| Editor | Randy Wright |
| Founded | 1873 (as the Provo Daily Times) |
| Headquarters | 1555 N. Freedom Blvd. Provo, Utah 84604 United States |
| Circulation | 32,000 daily 42,000 Thursday 36,000 Sunday |
| ISSN | 0891-2777 |
| Official website | heraldextra.com |
The Daily Herald is a daily newspaper that covers news and community events in Utah County, central Utah. Much of the coverage focuses on the Provo-Orem metropolitan area in Utah Valley.
The Herald is owned by Lee Enterprises, a media company based in Davenport, Iowa. It was acquired along with 13 others, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, when Lee purchased Pulitzer, Inc. in 2005. The paper has a daily circulation of 32,000 and a Sunday circulation of 36,000. It also owns nine community publications in Utah and Sanpete counties.
The earliest predecessor of the Daily Herald, the Provo Daily Times, was founded in 1873. It was the first newspaper to be published in Provo, when Utah was still a frontier territory. Statehood was not granted to Utah until 1896.
The paper eventually changed its name to the Enquirer, and then to the Provo Post. A competitor, the Utah County Democrat, was founded in 1898 and renamed the Provo Herald in 1909. In 1924 the Post and the Herald merged, forming a final foundation for the later Daily Herald.
The company was purchased in 1926 by James G. Scripps, eldest son of newspaper magnate E. W. Scripps. The Scripps family held the newspaper until the mid-1990s, when it was sold to Pulitzer, which held it for a decade. In 2005 Pulitzer was sold to Lee Enterprises.
In February 2009, the Daily Herald announced it would discontinue five weekly papers that had covered northern Utah County: the American Fork Citizen, Pleasant Grove Review, Lehi Free Press, Lone Peak Press and Orem Times.[1] Subscribers to those papers, which were published every Thursday and had a combined circulation of 5,800, instead began receiving Thursday issues of the Herald, leading to a higher subscription count that day.