The ''Fairborn Daily Herald'' is an American

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serving the city of

Fairborn, Ohio Fairborn is a city in Greene County, Ohio, United States. The population was 34,620 at the 2020 census. Fairborn is a suburb of Dayton, and part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is the only city in the world named Fairborn, a port ...

, and adjoining communities such as Enon, Yellow Springs and

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) is a United States Air Force base and census-designated place just east of Dayton, Ohio, in Greene County, Ohio, Greene and Montgomery County, Ohio, Montgomery counties. It includes both Wright and Patte ...

. Most of its circulation is in Greene County. It publishes Tuesdays through Saturdays from the Xenia offices of its sister paper, the ''

Xenia Daily Gazette The ''Xenia Daily Gazette'' is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American daily newspaper published daily except Sunday in Xenia, Ohio. It is owned by AIM Media based in McAllen, Texas. It covers the city of Xenia and several nearby communities in Gree ...

''. Both the ''Daily Herald'' and the ''Daily Gazette'', along with several nearby

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s in the

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, are owned by AIM Media Midwest.

History

The ''Fairborn Daily Herald'' has published daily since 1951. Previously it published as a

, also called the ''Herald'', covering the villages of Fairfield and

Osborn, Ohio Osborn was a town located near the Haddix Road- Ohio 235 intersection at the northern edge of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in what is now the flood-prone basin of the Huffman Dam in the U.S. state of Ohio. Osborn was named after the superi ...

, which merged in 1950 to become Fairborn. In the 1980s and 1990s, the ''Fairborn Daily Herald'' and its sister publication, the ''Beavercreek Daily News'' (both owned by the Times company, publisher of the ''

Kettering-Oakwood Times The ''Kettering-Oakwood Times'' was a weekly suburban newspaper last owned by Civitas Media of Davidson, North Carolina. The newspaper, first published in 1956, was one of three Civitas-owned Dayton, Ohio-area community papers that ceased publicati ...

'') shared a news room and were published from headquarters in northern Fairborn. In the 1990s, the ''Beavercreek Daily News'' was merged with its local rival, the ''Beavercreek Daily Current'' to form the 'Beavercreek News-Current', and moved to the Current's newsroom near the intersection of Dayton-Xenia Road and North Fairfield Road in

Beavercreek, Ohio Beavercreek is the largest city in Greene County, Ohio, United States, and is the second-largest suburb of Dayton. The population was 46,549 at the 2020 census. It is part of Metro Dayton. The Beavercreek area was settled in the early 1800s. A ...

. More recently, the Fairborn and Xenia papers, along with the daily (now weekly) ''Beavercreek News-Current'', constituted the Greene County Dailies subsidiary of

Brown Publishing Company Brown Publishing Company was a privately owned Cincinnati, Ohio, newspaper business started by Congressman Clarence J. Brown in Blanchester, Ohio in 1920. It ended 90 years of operations in August/September 2010 with its bankruptcy and sale of ass ...

. Brown purchased the Greene County papers from

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, a

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publisher, in 1998. Brown, a

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-based family business, declared bankruptcy and was reconstituted as

Ohio Community Media Ohio Community Media was an American privately owned publisher of daily and weekly newspapers, primarily in the state of Ohio. It was headquartered in the Dayton suburb of Miamisburg, Ohio, and was owned by Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Managem ...

in 2010. The company, including the ''Fairborn Daily Herald'', was purchased for an undisclosed sum in 2011 by

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-based Versa Capital Management. In 2012 Versa merged Ohio Community Media, the former

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papers it had acquired,

Impressions Media {{Infobox company , name = Impressions Media , logo = , type = Private , foundation = {{start date, 1939, as Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company , location = 15 North Main Street,Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 1 ...

, and

Heartland Publications Heartland Publications was a Connecticut-based owner of small to medium market newspapers, and started out by acquiring 24 publications from Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. located in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennesse ...

into a new company,

Civitas Media Civitas Media, LLC was a Davidson, North Carolina-based publisher of community newspapers covering 11 Midwestern, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern states. The company was formed in 2012 via the merger of Heartland Publications, Impressions Media, Ohi ...

. Civitas Media sold its Ohio papers to AIM Media Midwest in 2017. The Fairborn, Beavercreek, and Xenia papers are now all published from the Xenia office.

References

External links

''Fairborn Daily Herald'' website
Fairborn, Ohio Greene County, Ohio Newspapers published in Ohio Publications established in 1951 1951 establishments in Ohio {{Ohio-newspaper-stub