''The Herald-Mail'' is a

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serving the cities of

Hagerstown, Maryland Hagerstown is a city in Washington County, Maryland, United States, and its county seat. The population was 43,527 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Hagerstown ranks as Maryland's List of municipalities in Maryland, sixth-most popu ...

Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Chambersburg is a borough in and the county seat of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, Franklin County, in the South Central Pennsylvania, South Central region of Pennsylvania, United States. It is in the Cumberland Valley, which is part of the Gre ...

, and

Martinsburg, West Virginia Martinsburg is a city in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States, and its county seat. The population was 18,773 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making Martinsburg the largest city in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia a ...

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

Schurz Communications Schurz Communications, Inc. is an American broadband media group and cloud services provider based in South Bend, Indiana. It previously owned newspapers and television stations. History The company was founded in 1872 by Alfred B. Miller and ...

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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 ''

The Frederick News-Post ''The Frederick News-Post'' is the local newspaper of Frederick County, Maryland. In addition to discussing local news, the newspaper addresses international, national, and regional news. The paper publishes six days per week. History On Octob ...

'' in Frederick, MD. In 2019, Schurz sold the paper to

GateHouse Media GateHouse Media Inc. was an American publisher of locally based print and digital media. It published 144 daily newspapers, 684 community publications, and over 569 local-market websites in 38 states. Its parent company, New Media Investment Group ...

. 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)
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