''The Herald-Mail'' is a

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serving the cities of Hagerstown, Maryland,

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, and

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and the surrounding counties.

History

''The Morning Herald'' was the first daily newspaper in Hagerstown, beginning publication in 1873. ''The Mail'' began in 1828 but was not a daily paper, ''The Daily Mail'', until 1890. In 1920, the two papers merged. In 1960, they were purchased by

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. The ''Herald-Mail'' offered them as two weekday newspapers: in the morning, ''The Morning Herald'' and in the afternoon, ''The Daily Mail''. On October 1, 2007, the newspaper company combined the two weekday papers into one morning paper, ''The Herald-Mail''. This move followed a national trend of print paper consolidation to better compete with the growing popularity of news resources of the

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. The Weekend Edition has been and continues to be offered on Saturday and Sunday as a single morning edition also called ''The Herald-Mail''.

Readership

The newspaper has a paid circulation of 17,000 Monday through Saturday and 19,000 on Sunday, as of October 2020. The ''Herald-Mail'' has 60,000 average daily readers, 20% of the readership is from readers in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The ''Herald-Mail'' website registers 3 million page-views monthly, with an average of 330,000 unique visitors per month.

Corporate

The ''Herald-Mail'' has been owned by

since 1960 and functions as the second largest newspaper by circulation in the company. Schurz Communications also owns the area's cable company, Antietam Cable. The headquarters for the newspaper is on 100 Summit Avenue in downtown Hagerstown. Since 2011 It has been printed by ''

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'' in

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. In 2019, Schurz sold the paper to GateHouse Media. On August 5, 2019, New Media Investment Group, parent of GateHouse Media, announced that it would acquire Gannett.

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The ''Morning Herald'' (Chronicling America)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Herald-Mail Newspapers published in Maryland Hagerstown, Maryland Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Mass media in Hagerstown metropolitan area Publications established in 1828 1828 establishments in Pennsylvania Gannett publications

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