# Record Herald

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{{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](/source/Daily_newspaper)
| format       = [Broadsheet](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Washington_Court_House%2C_Ohio), [Ohio](/source/Ohio) 43160, [United States](/source/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](/source/daily_newspaper) published weekdays and Saturdays in [Washington Court House, Ohio](/source/Washington_Court_House%2C_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](/source/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](/source/Library_of_Congress) |accessdate=June 11, 2012}}</ref>

The newspaper was owned by [Cincinnati](/source/Cincinnati)'s [Brown Publishing Company](/source/Brown_Publishing_Company) before that company went bankrupt and was reconstituted as [Ohio Community Media](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Freedom_Communications) papers it had acquired, [Impressions Media](/source/Impressions_Media), and [Heartland Publications](/source/Heartland_Publications) into a new company, [Civitas Media](/source/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>

==References==
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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
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