''The Austin Daily Herald'' is an American, English language newspaper published Tuesday-Saturday mornings in

Austin, Minnesota Austin is a city in, and the county seat of, Mower County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 26,174 at the 2020 census. The town was originally settled along the Cedar River and has two artificial lakes, East Side Lake and Mill Po ...

. Distribution is 5,280, mostly within

. It also publishes the ''Shopping News'' which is distributed to 16,000 households on Sundays free of charge. It was founded in 1891 as a six-day-a-week daily by A.B. Hunkins, inventor of the automatic addressing press. The ''Austin Daily Herald'' is currently owned by

Boone Newspapers Boone Newspapers, Incorporated (BNI) is the parent company of a publishing business that includes dozens newspapers as well as magazines, other published materials, and internet properties in the United States. It is a private company and owns pap ...

, Inc.

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