- Sapulpa Daily Herald
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Sapulpa Daily Herald Type Daily newspaper Format Broadsheet Owner Sumner Family Publisher Darren Sumner Editor Brenda Shance Founded 1914 Headquarters 16 South Park Street
Sapulpa, Oklahoma 74066
United StatesCirculation 4,490 daily[1] Official website sapulpaheraldonline.com The Sapulpa Daily Herald, "Creek County's Only Daily Newspaper," is a six-day (Sunday through Friday) daily newspaper published in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, United States. It is owned by the Sumner family, owner of four other Oklahoma papers.
Founded in September 1914 by John W. Young and O.S. Todd, the Sapulpa Daily Herald later merged with the older Sapulpa Evening Light -- the city's oldest newspaper, founded in 1896 as a weekly, and relaunched as a daily in 1908 -- when the Light's publisher, Oren Miller Irelan, entered a partnership with Young. By the time the two sold the Herald to R.P. Matthews in 1944, it was one of only two newspapers in the city (there had, at one point, been six).[2]
The Matthews family sold to Ed Livermore in 1959; he bought out his only competitor, the weekly County Democrat News, in 1965. Livermore, a Sapulpa resident after whom the University of Oklahoma journalism chair is named, was the last local owner. He sold the Herald to Roy H. Park in 1979; Park sold to Community Newspaper Holdings in 1997.[2] The Herald changed owners again in October 2007, when CNHI sold it and two other papers to the Sumner family.[3]
The Herald was criticized when it did not report Barack Obama's win in the 2008 United States presidential election.[4]
Current Newsroom
Brenda Shance - Editor
Judy Lambert - Assistant Editor
Ben Johnson - Sports Editor
External links
References
- ^ CNHI-CAN Circulation, figures for an undetermined date, accessed February 18, 2007.
- ^ a b History of Sapulpa Newspapers, accessed February 19, 2007.
- ^ "Sumner Family Buys Three CNHI Dailies". Editor & Publisher. 2007-10-11. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/business/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003657368. Retrieved 2007-10-12.
- ^ "Newspaper ignores Obama win". CNN Video. Cable News Network. 10 November 2008. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/11/10/dnt.ok.no.obama.newspaper.kjrh. Retrieved 10 November 2008.
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