The smaller of the two main newspapers in

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' South Coast, ''The Herald News'' is a

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based in

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. Its coverage area includes Fall River and the nearby towns of Dighton,

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and

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. ''The Herald News'', formerly owned by

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, was sold in December 2006 to

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, which owns several daily and weekly newspapers in Massachusetts.Gavin, Robert. "GateHouse Buys More Mass. Papers." ''The Boston Globe'', December 2, 2006.

Sisters and competitors

''The Herald News''' main competitor to the east is '' The Standard-Times'' of the other South Coast city,

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. In its northern towns, ''The Herald News'' competes with the ''

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'', although the two were both owned by Journal Register and sold together to GateHouse. Before the GateHouse sale, ''The Herald News'' was part of Journal Register's New England group, which included '' The Call'' in Woonsocket, ''

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'' of Pawtucket, all in

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. The Rhode Island newspapers were not included in the sale. Also associated with ''The Herald News'', and included in the $70 million GateHouse sale, are ''O Jornal'' (a Portuguese-language weekly) and ''El Latino Expreso'' (a Spanish-language weekly), catering to the substantial immigrant population of the South Coast, and the ''Free-Press'' of

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. On July 16, 2010, publication of ''El Latino Expreso'' (founded 2004) and the

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weekly ''O Jornal Brasileiro'' (2007) was ended, with a lack of "a sustained advertiser base" and a desire to focus exclusively on ''O Jornal'' cited by GateHouse as the reasons to cease production.

History

Three Fall River newspapers combined in 1892 to form ''The Herald News'': the ''Fall River News'', founded in 1845; the ''Fall River Daily Herald'', 1872, and the ''Fall River Daily Globe'', 1885.The Herald News: About Us
accessed January 7, 2007. In the 1960s The Herald-News was owned by Mark Goodson, the creator of the popular television game show "To Tell The Truth." The newspaper established its headquarters on lower Pocasset Street on Fall River, along the Quequechan River, which was routed through a pipe to make way for Interstate 195, from which The Herald-News building remains visible as one enters Fall River from the Braga Bridge. E.J. Dionne, The New York Times Washington Correspondent and later Washington Post columnist worked there as an intern; M. Charles Bakst, long-time columnist of The Providence Journal, began his career there. At its height, The Herald News circulated approximately 45,000 copies per day.

Prices

''The Herald News'' prices are: $2.00 daily, $3.00 Sunday.

Footnotes

External links

''The Herald News'' Website
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