The ''Los Angeles Herald-Express'' was one of

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' oldest newspapers, formed after a combination of the '' Los Angeles Herald'' and the '' Los Angeles Express''. After a 1962 combination with

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's '' Los Angeles Examiner'', the paper became the ''

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,'' folding on November 2, 1989.

History

''Los Angeles Express''

The ''Los Angeles Express'' was Los Angeles's oldest newspaper published under its original name until it combined with the ''Herald''. It was established on March 27, 1871

''Los Angeles Herald''

Established in 1873, the ''Los Angeles Herald'' or the ''Evening Herald'' represented the largely Democratic views of the city and focused primarily on issues local to Los Angeles and Southern California. The ''Los Angeles Daily Herald'' was first published on October 2, 1873, by Charles A. Storke. It was the first newspaper in Southern California to use the innovative steam press; the newspaper's offices at 125 South Broadway were popular with the public because large windows on the ground floor allowed passersby to see the presses in motion. In 1922, the ''Herald'' officially joined the Hearst News empire.

''Los Angeles Herald-Express''

In 1931, Hearst merged the ''Los Angeles Daily Herald'' with the ''Los Angeles Evening Express'' to form the ''Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express'', which was then the largest circulating evening newspaper west of the Mississippi.

''Los Angeles Herald Examiner''

The ''Los Angeles Herald Examiner'' was a major

daily newspaper, published in the afternoon from Monday to Friday and in the morning on Saturdays and Sundays. It was part of the Hearst syndicate. The afternoon ''Herald-Express'' and the morning ''Examiner'', both of which had been publishing in the same downtown Los Angeles building since the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, merged in 1962. A Los Angeles historian wrote in 2010, “A 1962 merger f the Examinerwith the Los Angeles Herald-Express, Hearst's afternoon paper, was merely a formality, as the two papers had shared workspace for decades.” For a few years after the merger, the ''Herald Examiner'' claimed the largest afternoon-newspaper circulation in the country. It published its last edition on November 2, 1989.Judy Pasternak and Thomas B. Rosenstiel, "Herald Examiner Will Halt Publishing Today," ''Los Angeles Times,'' November 2, 1989
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Notable people

* Samuel Travers Clover, became editor of the ''Express'' in 1902. * John Tracy Gaffey, first editor of the ''Los Angeles Herald'' * C.H. Garrigues, writer * Grace Kingsley, feature writer * Dave Stannard, Los Angeles City Council member, 1942–43 * William Ivan "Ike" St. Johns and Adela Rogers St. Johns, a popular husband-and-wife reporting team, were among the notable ''Herald'' staff in the early years. * John Kenneth Turner, muckraker * William J. Harrison, Circulation Director

References

External links

Digital archive of the Los Angeles ''Herald'' at the California Newspaper Collection
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