Gannett
Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.USA Today Network Wisconsin'' division. The newspaper is distributed primarily throughout
Manitowoc County
Manitowoc County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 81,359. Its county seat is Manitowoc. The county was created in 1836 prior to Wisconsin's statehood and organized in 1848. Manitowoc County ...
, as Green Bay and Sheboygan have their own Gannett newspapers (and often the ''HTR'' itself duplicates the front page of the ''Press'' on certain days). The newspaper is associated with the ''Lakeshore Chronicle'', a free newspaper circulated on Wednesdays and Sundays which contains "best-of" content from the ''HTR'' and circulars.
History
The first newspaper in Manitowoc began in November 1850 when a newspaper press was brought on a schooner from Milwaukee. A weekly newspaper called the ''Weekly Press'' was printed; it was renamed the ''Weekly Herald'' in 1955. In 1898, the ''Weekly Herald'' became a daily newspaper; the Herald-Press Publishing Company was formed and it printed the ''Daily Herald'' and ''Weekly Press''. The ''Weekly Press'' was absorbed into the ''Daily Herald'' in 1953 and the newspaper became known as the ''Herald Times''. It purchased the ''Two Rivers Reporter'' based in nearby Two Rivers in 1970 and the newspaper took its current name ''Herald Times Reporter'' in 1973.