The ''Sun Herald'' is a U.S.

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based in

Biloxi, Mississippi Biloxi ( ; ) is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States. It lies on the Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast in southern Mississippi, bordering the city of Gulfport, Mississippi, Gulfport to its west. The adjacent cities ar ...

, that serves readers along the Mississippi

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. The paper's current executive editor and general manager is Blake Kaplan, and its headquarters is in the city of Gulfport. It is owned by

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, one of the largest newspaper publishers in the United States.

History

It was founded in 1884 as ''The Weekly Herald'', based in Biloxi. It expanded its coverage into Gulfport in 1905, and by 1934 had changed its name to ''The Daily Herald'', becoming an evening and Saturday newspaper. The State Record Company bought the paper from its longtime owners, the Wilkes family, in 1968. Around this time, it moved its Saturday edition to morning publication and added a Sunday edition. It added a morning companion paper, the ''South Mississippi Sun'', in 1973. That edition ran until 1985, when the two papers were merged as the ''Sun Herald'', a seven-day all-day paper. The evening edition was dropped in 1986, shortly before State Record merged with

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. The ''Sun Herald'' offices and printing presses were squarely hit by

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in August 2005, but the newspaper never missed an edition. Some of the staff evacuated in advance of the storm to

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, where then-owner Knight Ridder owned the ''

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''. From the Columbus paper's newsroom, the ''Sun Herald'' editors and designers, with the help of Knight Ridder journalists from across the country, produced daily editions of the ''Sun Herald'' for eleven days, until power could be restored to Biloxi and the newspaper could be produced at its plant there. The ''Sun Herald'' was awarded the

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for Public Service, along with ''

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'' of New Orleans, for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. It is the first Pulitzer for the newspaper. The same year, Knight Ridder was purchased by McClatchy. In April 2024, the newspaper announced it would decrease the number of print editions to two a week: Wednesdays and Sundays.

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