The Register-Herald

{{Short description|American newspaper in Beckley, West Virginia}} {{Distinguish|text=the weekly newspaper based in Eaton, Ohio of the same name The Register-Herald (Ohio)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Register-Herald | logo = The Register-Herald (2020-09-13).svg | image = | caption = | type = Daily newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = 1985 | owners = Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. | publisher = Frank Wood | editor = J. Damon Cain | price = | headquarters = 801 North Kanawha Street<br>Beckley, West Virginia 25801 | circulation = 19,237 | circulation_date = 2016 | circulation_ref = <ref name="pdf1"/> | website = [http://www.register-herald.com Register-Herald.com] }}

'''''The Register-Herald''''' is a six-day morning daily newspaper, Monday through Friday, with a weekend edition delivered on Saturday mornings. It is based in Beckley, West Virginia, United States. It also covers surrounding communities in Fayette, Greenbrier, Raleigh, Summers and Wyoming counties, West Virginia. It has a circulation of 19,237 and is owned by Community Newspaper Newspaper Holdings.<ref name="pdf1">{{Cite book|url=https://wvpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2016-directory-print-062916-small.pdf|title=2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory|publisher=West Virginia Press Association|year=2016}}</ref>

== History == The newspaper traces its history to the ''Raleigh Register'', the ''Raleigh Herald'', and the ''Beckley Evening Post'', which were among a dozen weekly and monthly publications published in and around Beckley as early as the 1880s. The ''Raleigh Register'' developed into a modern daily newspaper and began seven-day publication on June 6, 1923. The ''Evening Post'' began daily publication on February 12, 1924. On May 31, 1926 the ''Herald and Evening Post'' combined as a morning daily newspaper known as the ''Beckley Post-Herald''. On June 1, 1928, the ''Raleigh Register'' and ''Beckley Post-Herald'' came under common ownership, with the ''Post-Herald'' publishing Monday-Friday mornings, the ''Register'' publishing Monday-Friday afternoons, and with subscribers receiving a combined paper produced by the ''Post-Herald'' staff on Saturday and the ''Register'' staff on Sunday. Despite the common ownership, the ''Register'' was generally a Democratic newspaper, and the ''Post-Herald'' a Republican alternative. This arrangement continued until the sale of the newspapers to the owners of the ''Charleston Daily Mail'' in 1977. Following this, the editorial independence of the two publications declined, and the ''Register'' was slowly shut down. By 1981 the ''Register'' was simply an afternoon reprint and update of the ''Post-Herald'', with a separate editorial page. On January 1, 1985 the two newspapers were completely combined under the current name.

The newspaper changed hands three times in the 1990s, before being acquired by its current owners in 2000. Circulation has waned with the declining population of the area.

Beckley Newspapers, a division of Community Newspaper Holdings Inc., publishes the ''Register-Herald'' and two weekly newspapers, the ''Fayette Tribune'' and the ''Montgomery Herald''.<ref name="about">[http://www.register-herald.com/contactus/local_story_207143207.html The Register-Herald: Department Email Information], accessed January 20, 2007.</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.register-herald.com/ ''The Register-Herald'' website] * [http://www.cnhi.com/ CNHI website] * [http://jeff560.tripod.com/newspapers.html "History of Newspapers in Beckley, West Virginia"]

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