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 Hearst Corporation's ''

Los Angeles Examiner The ''Los Angeles Examiner'' was a newspaper founded in 1903 by William Randolph Hearst in Los Angeles, California. The afternoon '' Los Angeles Herald-Express'' and the morning ''Los Angeles Examiner'', both of which had been publishing in the ...

'', the paper became the '' Los Angeles Herald-Examiner'' 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 city since the turn of the 20th century, merged in 1962. For a few years after this 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 John Tracy Gaffey (November 1, 1860 – January 9, 1935) was a journalist, state and city official, real-estate speculator and investor at the turn of the 20th century in Los Angeles, California. Personal Gaffey was born on November 1, 1860 i ...

, first editor of the ''Los Angeles Herald'' * C.H. Garrigues, writer * Grace Kingsley, feature writer *

Dave Stannard __NOTOC__ David Samuel Benjamin Stannard (March 31, 1881 – June 14, 1959) was a journalist and advertising representative named to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1942 to replace Harold Harby, who had been stripped of his seat becau ...

, 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

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