The Sapulpa Herald is published in

Sapulpa, Oklahoma Sapulpa is a city in Creek County, Oklahoma, Creek and Tulsa County, Oklahoma, Tulsa counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 20,544 at the 2010 United States census, compared to 19,166 at the 2000 United States Census, 2000 cens ...

Creek County is a bi-weekly newspaper, with a Weekday Edition (Wednesday) and a Weekend Edition (Saturday). It is owned by the Sumner family. They also own 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).History of Sapulpa Newspapers
accessed February 19, 2007. 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

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journalism chair is named, was the last local owner. He sold the ''Herald'' to

Roy H. Park Roy Hampton Park (15 September 1910 – 25 October 1993) was an American media executive and entrepreneur. He is known for creating the Duncan Hines brand of packaged food products, and for his television/radio/newspaper conglomerate, Park Commun ...

in 1979; Park sold to

Community Newspaper Holdings CNHI, LLC (formerly Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.) is an American publisher of newspapers and advertising-related publications throughout the United States. The company was formed in 1997 by Ralph Martin,

in 1997. The ''Herald'' changed owners again in October 2007, when CNHI sold it and two other papers to the Sumner family.

2008 presidential election

In 2008, the Sapulpa Daily Herald made no mention of President Obama's presidential victory. The newspaper claimed that it covered local news and not national news. The move prompted protests that the newspaper was practicing racism. The newspaper's publisher explained "We run a newspaper, not a memory book service. We covered the local commissioner's race. We thought that was more important."Protests outside newspaper that ignored Barack Obama's victory, ''The Telegraph'', 12 November 2008
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Circulation

Current Circulation - 2900 (When CNHI was the owner of the Sapulpa Daily Herald the circulation was 5400.)

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External links

* * {{cite web, url=https://sapulpatimes.com/ , title=The Sapulpa Times, publisher=An alternative on-line news source for Sapulpa Newspapers published in Oklahoma Creek County, Oklahoma