| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | EO Media Group |
| Founder(s) | Horace Greeley Newport William Skinner |
| Founded | 1906 |
| Language | Englsh |
| Headquarters | 333 E. Main St, Hermiston, OR 97838 |
| Circulation | 8,900 Print 173 Digital(as of 2023) [1] |
| ISSN | 2995-7893 |
| OCLC number | 38509173 |
| Website | hermistonherald |
The Hermiston Herald is a weekly newspaper published on Wednesdays in Hermiston, Oregon, United States, since 1906. [2]
The Herald was founded by Horace Greeley Newport and William Skinner in 1906. [3] One newspaper wrote of the launch as so, "The Hermiston Herald is the youngest and latest newspaper swaddling to make its appearance on the Press exchange table. It is a healthy infant, comes to us in a handsome dress and apparently nursed by some one who is well up in the ways and manners of newspaper work." [4] C. E. Baker, of Pendleton, moved to Hermiston to acquire the paper in April 1907. [5] A few days later The Hermiston Publishing Company was incorporated by Baker and two others. [6]
Baker, as the paper's editor/owner, in 1909 purchased a small cylinder press previously used by a Pendleton printery, allowing him to publish his paper without patent pages. [7] Later that year he sold the paper to F. R. Reeves. [8] Reeves operated the Herald for close to eight years until selling it to M. D. O'Connell, [9] who a year later purchased a linotype machine. [10] The year after that O'Connell's wife filed for divorce. [11]
In 1920, Herald Publishing Company was incorporated again, this time owned by E. K. Kingsley and M. C. Athey. [12] A year later Athey, who was the paper's editor, sold his interests to Bernard Mainwaring. [13] Mainwaring went on to buy the Milton Eagle. [14] Raymond Crowder became owner around this time and operated the Herald for four years. [15] He sold it in 1926 to Joseph S. Harvey. [16] Harvey left the paper after two years to work as editor of the Times in Twin Falls, Idaho. [17] Jack M. Biggs then ran the Herald as editor and publisher for two years, [18] and sold it in 1930 to a group of three including Alfred Quiring [19]
Leander Quiring joined his brother as the paper's co-owner in 1939, [20] and went on to serve as Hermiston mayor for four years and then in the Oregon state senate. [21] [22] The Quirings sold The Hermiston Weekly Herald in 1945 to Dan C. Bartlett and his wife. [23] Years later Bartlett purchased the Umatilla County Sun in 1955 [24] and then ran for the Democratic nomination for state senator in 1958 while continuing to work as the Herald's publisher. [25]
G. M. "Jerry" Reed bought a minority ownership stake in the paper in 1969 and became the sole owner in 1974. [26] He bought the Heppner Gazette-Times two years later [27] and merged his company with Eagle Newspapers in a stock-for-stock exchange in March 1979. [28] [29] Reed sold the Gazette-Times in August 1979 [30] and his interests in Eagle Newspapers in 1984. He would to run the Herald until selling it to Western Communications in 1992. [26] [3] Reed was posthumously inducted into the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association's hall of fame in 2017. [31] [32]
In 2008, the newspaper was purchased by EO Media Group (formerly known as the East Oregonian Publishing Company). [33] In June 2024, EO Media Group announced The Hermiston Herald will cease print publication and go online-only. All print subscribers will instead receive the East Oregonian , published weekly and including news from The Hermiston Herald's website. [34] [35] The company was purchased by Carpenter Media Group in October 2024. [36]