The News-Herald (Southgate, Michigan)

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The News-Herald
Type Biweekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Digital First Media
( 21st Century Media )
PublisherJonathan Wolman
Managing editor, designRick Kessler
Founded1879
HeadquartersOne Heritage Drive, Suite 100
Southgate, MI 48195 Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Circulation 74,000 Wednesday
63,150 Sunday
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Website thenewsherald.com

The News-Herald is a bi-weekly newspaper serving the Downriver suburbs of Detroit. It is based in Southgate, Michigan, and owned by Digital First Media as part of its Detroit region. [2]

Contents

The newspaper is published every Wednesday and Sunday.

History

The News-Herald's history dates back to the 1870s, when the Rev. George W. Owen established the Wyandotte Herald in Wyandotte, MI. After merging with the Wyandotte Daily News, from 1944 it was known as the Wyandotte News-Herald. [3] The Mellus Newspapers started in the 1920s, subsequently flourished for decades under famous publisher/editor William Mellus.

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. In 1988, The News-Herald relocated to their current offices at Interstate 75 and Northline Road in Southgate, MI and launched "Weekender" editions in select communities, which was later incorporated into Heritage Sunday and is now known as the Sunday News-Herald. [4] A Friday edition of The News-Herald delivered exclusively via the United States Postal Service began publishing on March 3, 2006 [5] and was discontinued after the April 20, 2012 edition. [6]

Following the 2013 merger of 21st Century Media and MediaNews Group to form Digital First Media, the current owner, the News-Herald was placed in 2014 into Digital First's newly formed Detroit region, which also includes longtime sister papers The Macomb Daily and The Detroit News . The other 21st Century-owned newspapers in Michigan were placed into Digital First's Michigan region, headquartered in Pontiac.

In 2016 severe cuts to the newsroom left them with one sports reporter who split time also covering sports for a sister newspaper in Dearborn, and three full time reporters to cover the communities Downriver.

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References

  1. "The News-Herald". 21st Century Newspapers . Retrieved 2008-08-18.
  2. "Michigan Cluster". Journal Register Company. Archived from the original on 2007-11-10. Retrieved 2007-11-13.
  3. 1 2 Bacon Memorial District Library, Local history. Accessed 25 May 2017.
  4. "Allen Park: Newspaper carrier celebrates 25 years on the job". The News-Herald. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
  5. "Friday News-Herald will debut March 3". The News-Herald. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
  6. "Friday features, stories will continue in Sunday, Wednesday editions". The News-Herald. Retrieved 2014-06-01.