The Daily Herald is a daily newspaper that covers news and community events in Utah County , central Utah . Much of the coverage focuses on the Provo-Orem metropolitan area in Utah Valley .
10-631: The Daily Herald is owned by Ogden Newspapers . The paper has a daily circulation of 32,000, with a Thursday circulation of 42,000 and a Sunday circulation of 36,000. It also owns nine community publications in Utah and Sanpete counties. The earliest predecessor of the Daily Herald , the Provo Daily Times , was founded in 1873. It was the first newspaper to be published in Provo, when Utah
20-516: A combined circulation of 5,800, instead began receiving Thursday issues of the Herald, leading to a higher subscription count that day. At that time the weekly papers in southern Utah County were not affected. However, by January 2011, it announced that it would entirely discontinue the weekly newspapers that covered southern Utah County ( Springville Herald , Spanish Fork Press , and Nebo Reporter ) and incorporate their content into daily publication of
30-814: Is a daily newspaper based in Martinsburg, West Virginia , and serving Berkeley , Jefferson and Morgan counties in the state's Eastern Panhandle . It is owned by Ogden Newspapers . The Journal was established as The Evening Journal in 1907 by Harry F. Byrd , a future U.S. Senator and governor of Virginia. Byrd sold the paper in 1912 to associate Max von Schlegell, who sold it to H.C. Ogden in 1923. The newspaper changed its name in 1913 to The Martinsburg West Va. Evening Journal ; in 1920, to The Martinsburg Journal ; back to The Evening Journal in 1978; to The Morning Journal in 1990; and to its current name in 1993. H.C. Ogden's grandson, G. Ogden Nutting, began his newspaper career at The Martinsburg Journal as
40-640: The Daily Herald to Ogden Newspapers . Ogden Newspapers Ogden Newspapers Inc. is a Wheeling, West Virginia based publisher of daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, telephone directories, and shoppers guides. It has operations in California , Florida , Hawaii , Indiana , Iowa , Kansas , Maryland , Michigan , Minnesota , New Hampshire , New York , North Dakota , Ohio , Pennsylvania , Utah , Virginia and West Virginia , serving mostly small markets, such as Cape Coral, Florida , Fort Wayne, Indiana and Lawrence, Kansas . The company
50-560: The Daily Herald . By April 2013, the online editions of all the northern Utah County publications, except the American Fork Citizen have been discontinued. However, an online edition of The Pyramid ( Mount Pleasant in Sanpete County ) is also published. In February 2013, the Daily Herald announced that it would no longer publish a daily opinion page. This change came shortly after 10 percent of its workforce
60-806: The company was the apparent high bid to purchase the bankrupt Charleston Gazette-Mail . It withdrew the bid on March 8, 2018. Also in March 2018, the company purchased all newspapers owned by the Byrd family. The sale included The Winchester Star , Daily News-Record , The Page News and Courier , The Warren Sentinel , The Shenandoah Valley-Herald and The Valley Banner . On January 1, 2022, Ogden Newspapers took over Swift Communications , which has publications in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. In 2024, Ogden purchased The Dominion Post . The Journal (West Virginia newspaper) The Journal
70-450: The newspaper until 1996, when it was sold to Pulitzer , which held it for almost a decade. In 2005 Pulitzer was sold to Lee Enterprises . In February 2009, the Daily Herald announced it would discontinue five weekly papers that had covered northern Utah County: the American Fork Citizen , Pleasant Grove Review , Lehi Free Press , Lone Peak Press and Orem Times . Subscribers to those papers, which were published every Thursday and had
80-717: Was founded by H.C. Ogden in 1890, and is currently run by the family of his grandson, G. Ogden Nutting. Current CEO Robert Nutting , son of G. Ogden Nutting, is the fourth generation of the Ogden-Nutting family to run the company, and is also principal owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates . In October 1984, two Ogden newspapers ( The Intelligencer and The Evening Journal ) dropped the Doonesbury comic strip because they objected to Doonesbury's coverage of Ronald Reagan . On January 30, 2018, it emerged that
90-472: Was laid off, including the executive editor. As of May 2013, a replacement executive editor, nor an interim executive editor, had not been identified, leaving the possibility that the position may be permanently eliminated. In April 2014, Bob Williams was named publisher, and in September 2015, the Daily Herald named Scott Tittrington and Jordan Carroll as co-managing editors. In 2016, Lee Enterprises sold
100-714: Was still a frontier territory. The paper eventually changed its name to the Enquirer , and then to the Provo Post . A competitor, the Utah County Democrat , was founded in 1898 and renamed the Provo Herald in 1909. In 1924 the Provo Post and the Provo Herald merged, forming a final foundation for the later Daily Herald . The company was purchased in 1926 by James G. Scripps, eldest son of newspaper magnate E. W. Scripps . Scripps League Newspapers held
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