# The Herald News

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Newspaper from Fall River, Massachusetts

For other similarly named newspapers, see [The Herald News (disambiguation)](/source/The_Herald_News_(disambiguation)).

The Herald News Type Daily newspaper Format Broadsheet Owner USA Today Co. Publisher Mark Olivieri Editor Lynne Sullivan Founded 1892 (1892) Headquarters , Fall River, Massachusetts 02722, United States Circulation 14,979 Daily 15,489 Sunday (as of 2012)[1] ISSN 1074-052X Website heraldnews.com

***The Herald News*** is a [daily newspaper](/source/Daily_newspaper) based in [Fall River, Massachusetts](/source/Fall_River%2C_Massachusetts). Its coverage area includes Fall River and the nearby [South Coast](/source/South_Coast_(Massachusetts)) towns of [Dighton](/source/Dighton%2C_Massachusetts), [Freetown](/source/Freetown%2C_Massachusetts), [Somerset](/source/Somerset%2C_Massachusetts), [Swansea](/source/Swansea%2C_Massachusetts) and [Westport, Massachusetts](/source/Westport%2C_Massachusetts); as well as [Little Compton](/source/Little_Compton%2C_Rhode_Island) and [Tiverton, Rhode Island](/source/Tiverton%2C_Rhode_Island).[2]

*The Herald News*, formerly owned by [Journal Register Company](/source/Journal_Register_Company), was sold in December 2006 to [GateHouse Media](/source/GateHouse_Media), which owns several daily and weekly newspapers in Massachusetts.[3]

## Sisters and competitors

*The Herald News*' main competitor to the east is *[The Standard-Times](/source/The_Standard-Times_(New_Bedford))* of the other South Coast city, [New Bedford, Massachusetts](/source/New_Bedford%2C_Massachusetts). In its northern towns, *The Herald News* competes with the *[Taunton Daily Gazette](/source/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](/source/The_Call_(Woonsocket))* in Woonsocket, *[Kent County Daily Times](/source/Kent_County_Daily_Times)* and *[The Times](/source/The_Times_(Pawtucket))* of Pawtucket, all in [Rhode Island](/source/Rhode_Island). The Rhode Island newspapers were not included in the sale.[4]

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](/source/North_Attleborough%2C_Massachusetts).[3] On July 16, 2010, publication of *El Latino Expreso* (founded 2004) and the [Brazilian American](/source/Brazilian_Americans) 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.[5]

## 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.[6] 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.

## Footnotes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-circ_1-0)** ["FAS-FAX Report: Circulation Averages for the Six Months Ended March 31, 2012"](http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/newsform.asp). Arlington Heights, Ill.: [Audit Bureau of Circulations](/source/Audit_Bureau_of_Circulations_(North_America)). Retrieved May 21, 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Audit Bureau of Circulations](/source/Audit_Bureau_of_Circulations_(North_America)). "Reader Profile Report: The Herald News," March 2006

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-gavin_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-gavin_3-1) Gavin, Robert. "GateHouse Buys More Mass. Papers." *The Boston Globe*, December 2, 2006.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Rowland, Christopher. "Chain Aims to Sell Papers in Region." *The Boston Globe*, August 29, 2006.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** 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](https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AWNB&docref=news/13501115AEE032C8) .

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [The Herald News: About Us](http://www.heraldnews.com/site/news.cfm?brd=1710&pag=460&dept_id=586223&nr=1&nostat=1), accessed January 7, 2007.

## External links

- [*The Herald News* Website](http://www.heraldnews.com/)

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