The Brownsville Herald

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The Brownsville Herald
Brownsville-Herald.jpg
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) AIM Media Texas
PublisherStephan Wingert
EditorMichael Rodriguez
Opinion editorCarlos Rodriguez
FoundedJuly 4, 1892;131 years ago (1892-07-04) (as the Daily Herald)
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters222 N. Expressway 77/83, Suite 176, Brownsville, Texas, U.S. 78521 [1]
Circulation 6,283(as of 2023) [2]
Sister newspapersEl Nuevo Heraldo
ISSN 0894-2064
Website myrgv.com/the-brownsville-herald

The Brownsville Herald is a newspaper based in Brownsville, Texas, United States, circulating in the Cameron County area.

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History

Jesse O. Wheeler, a newspaperman from Victoria, [3] purchased Brownsville's Cosmopolitan newspaper in 1892 and renamed it the Brownsville Herald. In early years, the paper voiced concern for the need of a railroad connection to the north and a bridge to the nearby city of Matamoros, Mexico. [4] A bridge opened in 1910.

It was owned by Freedom Communications until 2012, after Freedom filed for bankruptcy. [5] Its papers in Texas the Herald, Odessa American , Valley Morning Star of Harlingen, El Nuevo Heraldo, The Monitor of McAllen, The Mid Valley Town Crier of Weslaco, Coastal Current of South Padre Island, and a variety of other weekly and monthly publications were sold to AIM Media Texas. [6]

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