The Daily Herald (Utah)

The ''Daily Herald'' is a daily newspaper that covers news and community events in Utah County, central Utah. Much of the coverage focuses on the Provo-Orem metropolitan area in Utah Valley.

The ''Daily Herald'' is owned by Ogden Newspapers. The paper has a daily circulation of 32,000, with a Thursday circulation of 42,000 and a Sunday circulation of 36,000. It also owns nine community publications in Utah and Sanpete counties.

History

The earliest predecessor of the ''Daily Herald'', the ''Provo Daily Times'', was founded in 1873. It was the first newspaper to be published in Provo, when Utah was still a frontier territory. The paper eventually changed its name to the ''Enquirer'', and then to the ''Provo Post''. A competitor, the ''Utah County Democrat'', was founded in 1898 and renamed the ''Provo Herald'' in 1909. In 1924 the ''Provo Post'' and the ''Provo Herald'' merged, forming a final foundation for the later ''Daily Herald''. The company was purchased in 1926 by James G. Scripps, eldest son of newspaper magnate E. W. Scripps. Scripps League Newspapers held the newspaper until 1996, when it was sold to Pulitzer, which held it for almost a decade. In 2005 Pulitzer was sold to Lee Enterprises.

In February 2009, the ''Daily Herald'' announced it would discontinue five weekly papers that had covered northern Utah County: the ''American Fork Citizen'', ''Pleasant Grove Review'', ''Lehi Free Press'', ''Lone Peak Press'' and ''Orem Times''. Subscribers to those papers, which were published every Thursday and had a combined circulation of 5,800, instead began receiving Thursday issues of the Herald, leading to a higher subscription count that day. At that time the weekly papers in southern Utah County were not affected. However, by January 2011, it announced that it would entirely discontinue the weekly newspapers that covered southern Utah County (''Springville Herald'', ''Spanish Fork Press'', and ''Nebo Reporter'') and incorporate their content into daily publication of the ''Daily Herald''. By April 2013, the online editions of all the northern Utah County publications, except the ''American Fork Citizen'' have been discontinued. However, an online edition of ''The Pyramid'' ( Mount Pleasant in Sanpete County) is also published.

In February 2013, the ''Daily Herald'' announced that it would no longer publish a daily opinion page. This change came shortly after 10 percent of its workforce, including the executive editor, was laid off. As of May 2013, a replacement executive editor, nor an interim executive editor, had not been identified, leaving the possibility that the position may be permanently eliminated.

In April 2014, Bob Williams was named publisher, and in September 2015, the ''Daily Herald'' named Scott Tittrington and Jordan Carroll as co-managing editors. In 2016, Lee Enterprises sold the ''Daily Herald'' to Ogden Newspapers.

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