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The Hermiston Herald
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)EO Media Group
Founder(s)Horace Greeley Newport
William Skinner
Founded1906
LanguageEnglsh
Headquarters333 E. Main St,
Hermiston, OR 97838
Circulation8,900 Print
173 Digital (as of 2023)
ISSN2995-7893
OCLC number38509173
Websitehermistonherald.com

The Hermiston Herald is a weekly newspaper published on Wednesdays in Hermiston, Oregon, United States, since 1906.

History

The Herald was founded by Horace Greeley Newport and William Skinner in 1906. 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." C. E. Baker, of Pendleton, moved to Hermiston to acquire the paper in April 1907. A few days later The Hermiston Publishing Company was incorporated by Baker and two others.

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. Later that year he sold the paper to F. R. Reeves. Reeves operated the Herald for close to eight years until selling it to M. D. O'Connell, who a year later purchased a linotype machine. The year after that O'Connell's wife filed for divorce.

In 1920, Herald Publishing Company was incorporated again, this time owned by E. K. Kingsley and M. C. Athey. A year later Athey, who was the paper's editor, sold his interests to Bernard Mainwaring. Mainwaring went on to buy the Milton Eagle. Raymond Crowder became owner around this time and operated the Herald for four years. He sold it in 1926 to Joseph S. Harvey. Harvey left the paper after two years to work as editor of the Times in Twin Falls, Idaho. Jack M. Biggs then ran the Herald as editor and publisher for two years, and sold it in 1930 to a group of three including Alfred Quiring

Leander Quiring joined his brother as the paper's co-owner in 1939, and went on to serve as Hermiston mayor for four years and then in the Oregon state senate. The Quirings sold The Hermiston Weekly Herald in 1945 to Dan C. Bartlett and his wife. Years later Bartlett purchased the Umatilla County Sun in 1955 and then ran for the Democratic nomination for state senator in 1958 while continuing to work as the Herald's publisher.

G. M. "Jerry" Reed bought a minority ownership stake in the paper in 1969 and became the sole owner in 1974. He merged his company with Eagle Newspapers in a stock-for-stock exchange in 1979. Reed sold his interests in the company in 1984 and would run the paper until selling it to Western Communications in 1992. Reed was posthumously inducted into the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association's hall of fame in 2017.

In 2008, the newspaper was purchased by EO Media Group (formerly known as the East Oregonian Publishing Company). 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. The company was purchased by Carpenter Media Group in October 2024.

References

  1. "EO Media Group Publishing Map". EO Media Group LLC. 2023-03-06. Archived from the original on April 19, 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-19.
  2. "The Hermiston Herald". Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
  3. ^ "Hermiston Herald joins EO Media Group (formerly East Oregonian Publishing Co.)". The Hermiston Herald. June 22, 2010. Archived from the original on January 9, 2025. Retrieved January 9, 2025.
  4. "The Hermiston Herald". The Athena Press. October 9, 1906. p. 2.
  5. "Hermiston Notes | Crowding Work On The Reclamation Project". East Oregonian. April 9, 1907. p. 6.
  6. "Another County Newspaper". Statesman Journal. April 11, 1907. p. 4.
  7. "Hermiston To Have A Tree Festival". East Oregonian. March 30, 1909. p. 8.
  8. "Hermiston Herald Sold". The Athena Press. December 24, 1909. p. 1.
  9. "Hermiston Herald Has Changed Hands". East Oregonian. June 25, 1917. p. 1.
  10. "Hermiston Herald Installs Linotype". East Oregonian. November 26, 1918. p. 8.
  11. "Publisher sued for Divorce". East Oregonian. July 16, 1919. p. 3.
  12. "Hermiston Newspaper Files Corporation Papers". Statesman Journal. August 14, 1920. p. 8.
  13. "Interest In Paper Sold | Bernard Mainwaring of Newberg to Edit Hermiston Herald". The Sunday Oregonian. July 17, 1921. p. 13.
  14. "Milton Eagle Is Sold". The Oregonian. July 6, 1922. p. 7.
  15. "Raymond Crowder Here". Statesman Journal. March 11, 1926. p. 3.
  16. "Hermiston Herald Is Sold". The Spokesman-Review. March 5, 1926. p. 8.
  17. "Joe S. Harvey Dies in Boise | Statesman News Editor Active in Idaho Journalism, Passes Away". The Idaho Statesman. January 10, 1931. p. 2.
  18. Goodwin, Earl R. (August 24, 193). "American Veteran". The Oregon Daily Journal. p. 38.
  19. "Hermiston Newspaper Sold". The Oregonian. December 10, 1930. p. 12.
  20. "Dallas". The Capital Journal. April 1, 1939. p. 2.
  21. "Businessman To Fill Post". Herald and News. Associated Press. December 28, 1956. p. 1.
  22. "Quiring Expected to Be Named for Finance Job". Statesman Journal. February 11, 1959. p. 16.
  23. "Around Oregon". Corvallis Gazette-Times. Associated Press. June 5, 1945. p. 2.
  24. "Newspaper Sold". The Eugene Guard. Associated Press. March 1, 1955. p. 3.
  25. "Former Publisher Files For Senator". The Arcadia Guide. Arcadia, Nebraska. March 6, 1958. p. 4.
  26. ^ McDowell, Jade (2016-11-04). "Former Herald owner/publisher Jerry Reed has died". Hermiston Herald. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
  27. Edstrom, Judy (August 15, 2012). "Eagle's 76 Years – our history – first installment". Eagle Newspapers Inc. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
  28. Easterling, Jerry (1980-01-20). "The Eagle is soaring: Newspaper chain undergoes rapid growth in past decade". Statesman Journal. p. 66. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
  29. "ONPA inducts Reed into Hall of Fame". The Hermiston Herald. July 17, 2017. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  30. "Newspaper Hall of Fame Award". Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  31. "East Oregonian Publishing Co. to acquire Herald". East Oregonian. 2008-04-22. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
  32. "EO Media Group announces changes to newspaper operations". East Oregonian. 2024-06-03. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  33. Buckley, Kyra (June 3, 2024). "Company that runs Bulletin, other Northwest newspapers to slash workforce and scale back print distribution". Oregon Public Broadcasting. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  34. Rogoway, Mike (2024-10-23). "Oregon newspaper chain EO Media sells itself to Mississippi company". The Oregonian. Retrieved 2024-10-23.

External links

Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association
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List of all Oregon newspapers, current and defunct
EO Media Group (formerly East Oregonian Publishing Co.)
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