{{Short description|Newspaper from Fall River, Massachusetts}} {{for|other similarly named newspapers|The Herald News (disambiguation)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Herald News | image = Fall_River_Herald_building,_Massachusetts-front.jpg | caption = | type = [[Daily newspaper]] | format = [[Broadsheet]] | founded = {{start date|1892}} | ceased_publication = | price = | owners = [[USA Today Co.]] | publisher = Mark Olivieri | editor = Lynne Sullivan | language = | political_position = | circulation = 14,979 Daily<br/>15,489 Sunday | circulation_date = 2012 | circulation_ref = <ref name=circ>{{cite web |url=http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/newsform.asp|title=FAS-FAX Report: Circulation Averages for the Six Months Ended March 31, 2012 |location=Arlington Heights, Ill.|publisher=[[Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America)|Audit Bureau of Circulations]] |access-date=May 21, 2012}}</ref> | headquarters = ,<br/>[[Fall River, Massachusetts|Fall River]], [[Massachusetts]] 02722, [[United States]] | ISSN = 1074-052X | website = [http://www.heraldnews.com/ heraldnews.com] }}
'''''The Herald News''''' is a [[daily newspaper]] based in [[Fall River, Massachusetts]]. Its coverage area includes Fall River and the nearby [[South Coast (Massachusetts)|South Coast]] towns of [[Dighton, Massachusetts|Dighton]], [[Freetown, Massachusetts|Freetown]], [[Somerset, Massachusetts|Somerset]], [[Swansea, Massachusetts|Swansea]] and [[Westport, Massachusetts]]; as well as [[Little Compton, Rhode Island|Little Compton]] and [[Tiverton, Rhode Island]].<ref>[[Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America)|Audit Bureau of Circulations]]. "Reader Profile Report: The Herald News," March 2006</ref>
''The Herald News'', formerly owned by [[Journal Register Company]], was sold in December 2006 to [[GateHouse Media]], which owns several daily and weekly newspapers in Massachusetts.<ref name="gavin">Gavin, Robert. "GateHouse Buys More Mass. Papers." ''The Boston Globe'', December 2, 2006.</ref>
== Sisters and competitors == ''The Herald News''<nowiki>'</nowiki> main competitor to the east is ''[[The Standard-Times (New Bedford)|The Standard-Times]]'' of the other South Coast city, [[New Bedford, Massachusetts]]. In its northern towns, ''The Herald News'' competes with the ''[[Taunton Daily Gazette]]'', although the two were both owned by Journal Register and sold together to GateHouse.
Before the GateHouse sale, ''The Herald News'' was part of Journal Register's New England group, which included ''[[The Call (Woonsocket)|The Call]]'' in Woonsocket, ''[[Kent County Daily Times]]'' and ''[[The Times (Pawtucket)|The Times]]'' of Pawtucket, all in [[Rhode Island]]. The Rhode Island newspapers were not included in the sale.<ref>Rowland, Christopher. "Chain Aims to Sell Papers in Region." ''The Boston Globe'', August 29, 2006.</ref>
Also associated with ''The Herald News'', and included in the $70 million GateHouse sale, are ''O Jornal'' (a Portuguese-language weekly) and ''El Latino Expreso'' (a Spanish-language weekly), catering to the substantial immigrant population of the South Coast, and the ''Free-Press'' of [[North Attleborough, Massachusetts]].<ref name="gavin"/> On July 16, 2010, publication of ''El Latino Expreso'' (founded 2004) and the [[Brazilian Americans|Brazilian American]] weekly ''O Jornal Brasileiro'' (2007) was ended, with a lack of "a sustained advertiser base" and a desire to focus exclusively on ''O Jornal'' cited by GateHouse as the reasons to cease production.<ref>Burke, S. (2010, June 29). Try As We Might. ''Wicked Local: Blogs (MA)''. Available from NewsBank: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AWNB&docref=news/13501115AEE032C8 .</ref>
== History == Three Fall River newspapers combined in 1892 to form ''The Herald News'': the ''Fall River News'', founded in 1845; the ''Fall River Daily Herald'', 1872, and the ''Fall River Daily Globe'', 1885.<ref>[http://www.heraldnews.com/site/news.cfm?brd=1710&pag=460&dept_id=586223&nr=1&nostat=1 The Herald News: About Us], accessed January 7, 2007.</ref> In the 1960s The Herald-News was owned by Mark Goodson, the creator of the popular television game show "To Tell The Truth." The newspaper established its headquarters on lower Pocasset Street on Fall River, along the Quequechan River, which was routed through a pipe to make way for Interstate 195, from which The Herald-News building remains visible as one enters Fall River from the Braga Bridge. E.J. Dionne, The New York Times Washington Correspondent and later Washington Post columnist worked there as an intern; M. Charles Bakst, long-time columnist of The Providence Journal, began his career there. At its height, The Herald News circulated approximately 45,000 copies per day.
==Prices== ''The Herald News'' prices are: $2.00 daily, $3.00 Sunday.
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==External links== * [http://www.heraldnews.com/ ''The Herald News'' Website]
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