Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Format | Tabloid, Digital |
Owner(s) | Richner Communications |
Publisher | Clifford and Stuart Richner |
Editor | Michael Hinman |
Founded | 1949 (as Southeaster) |
Language | American English |
Headquarters | 2 Endo Boulevard Garden City, Nassau County, New York 11530 |
City | Garden City |
Country | United States |
Circulation | 2,952(as of 2018) [1] |
Sister newspapers | Long Island Herald newspaper chain, Nassau Herald , The Jewish Star , Oyster Bay Guardian , The Riverdale Press |
ISSN | 2469-813X |
OCLC number | 883786393 |
Website | www |
The Wantagh Herald is an American weekly newspaper that serves Garden City, Wantagh, and Seaford in Nassau County, New York. [2] It is published on Thursdays with a circulation of 3,081 as of 2018. [1] The editor is Michael Hinman, with Michael Malaszczyk serving as its reporter. [3]
It is considered a paper of public record by Nassau County clerk's office. [4]
The Wantagh Herald Citizen was founded as the Southeaster in 1949 and became the Wantagh Seaford Citizen in 1953. [5] [2] The paper was split in two and changed in 2014 to the Wantagh Herald Citizenand Seaford Herald Citizen. In 2021, they both became the Wantagh Herald and Seaford Herald. [6]
G.L. Bricker, an early editor of the Southeaster paper in Wantagh, was sued for a million dollars for libel by the New York Communist Party. [7]
In 1958, Faith and Johannes Laursen purchased the paper, along with Merrick Life, Bellmore Life, and the Freeport-Baldwin Leader. [8] Johannes Laursen was briefly the head of the New York Press Association. [9] [10] The four papers together comprised L&M Publications, which was later run by the Laursen's children, Linda Toscano and Paul Laursen. [11]
L&M Publications was acquired in 2013 by Richner Communications, and the Wantagh Seaford Citizen was added to Richner's newspaper group, Herald Community Newspapers. It was split into two newspapers; the Wantagh Herald Citizen and Seaford Herald Citizen. In 2021, both papers dropped the Citizen from their title, and are now the Wantagh Herald and Seaford Herald. [8] [11]
Herald Community Papers received 2nd place in the New York Press Association's 2017 Better Newspapers Contest, in the category of Group or Chain Newspapers. [12] The Wantagh Herald Citizen also received 2nd place in that 2017 contest for Best Small Space Ad. [12]
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