{{short description|Newspaper in Washington Court House, Ohio}} {{about|the Ohio newspaper|the Pennsylvania newspaper|The Record Herald{{!}}''The Record Herald''}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Record Herald | logo = Record Herald logo.png | image = WCH Record Herald (cropped).JPG | caption = Offices of the Record Herald | type = Daily newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = {{start date|1858|12|11}}, as ''Washington Herald''<ref name=loc>{{cite web|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038144/ |title=About Washington Herald 1858-1860|work=Chronicling America |publisher=Library of Congress |accessdate=June 11, 2012}}</ref> | owners = AIM Media Midwest | editor = Ryan Carter | circulation = 5,143 daily in 2011<ref>Self-reported circulation figure in [http://www.recordherald.com/ftp/displayads/Rate_Card.pdf ''Record Herald'' Rate Card] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131008163549/http://www.recordherald.com/ftp/displayads/Rate_Card.pdf |date=October 8, 2013 }} dated October 1, 2011.</ref> | headquarters = 757 W. Elm St.,<br/> Washington Court House, Ohio 43160, United States | website = [http://www.recordherald.com/ recordherald.com] }}
The '''''Record Herald''''', earlier known as '''''Washington C.H. Record-Herald''''' is an American daily newspaper published weekdays and Saturdays in Washington Court House, Ohio. It is owned by AIM Media Midwest.
Founded as a weekly in 1858,<ref name=loc/> the ''Herald'' has published daily since at least 1916.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88077505/ |title=About Washington Herald 1916-1921|work=Chronicling America |publisher=Library of Congress |accessdate=June 11, 2012}}</ref> Two dailies, ''The Record-Republican'' and the ''Washington C.H. Herald'', merged in 1937 to form the current newspaper, which was known as the ''Washington C.H. Record-Herald'' before dropping the city name and the hyphen in 1972.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88077507/ |title=About Washington C.H. Record-Herald|work=Chronicling America |publisher=Library of Congress |accessdate=June 11, 2012}}</ref>
The newspaper was owned by Cincinnati's Brown Publishing Company before that company went bankrupt and was reconstituted as Ohio Community Media in 2010.<ref>{{cite news|last=Sanctis|first=Matt|title=Court Approves Brown Sale of Assets|url=http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-news/court-approves-brown-sale-of-assets-897201.html?cxtype=rss_334520|accessdate=June 12, 2012|newspaper=Springfield News-Sun|date=September 3, 2010|location=Springfield, Ohio}}</ref> The company, including the ''Record Herald'', was purchased for an undisclosed sum in 2011 by Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Management.<ref>{{cite news|title=Local Newspapers Under New Ownership|url=http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-business-news/local-newspapers-under-new-ownership-1165060.html?cxtype=rss_business|accessdate=June 12, 2012|newspaper=Springfield News-Sun|date=May 20, 2011|author=Staff report|location=Springfield, Ohio}}</ref>
In 2012, Versa merged Ohio Community Media, former Freedom papers it had acquired, Impressions Media, and Heartland Publications into a new company, Civitas Media.<ref>{{citation |accessdate=April 10, 2017|url= http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120911006840/en/Versa-Capital-Announces-Formation-Civitas-Media-LLC |author=Business Wire | title= Versa Capital Announces the Formation of Civitas Media, LLC }}</ref> Civitas Media sold its Ohio papers to AIM Media Midwest in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Quarterly Updates - 2nd Quarter 2017| work = Dirks, Van Essen & Murray| accessdate = 2017-10-28| date = 2017-06-30| url = http://dirksvanessen.com/articles/view/225/2nd-quarter-2017/| archive-date = October 29, 2017| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171029065021/http://dirksvanessen.com/articles/view/225/2nd-quarter-2017/| url-status = dead}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{official website|1=http://www.recordherald.com}}
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Category:1858 establishments in Ohio Category:Fayette County, Ohio Category:Newspapers established in 1858 Category:Newspapers published in Ohio
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