''The Herald Times Reporter'' is a daily

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based in

Manitowoc, Wisconsin Manitowoc () is a city in and the county seat of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, United States. The city is located on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Manitowoc River. According to the 2020 census, Manitowoc had a population of 34,626, with over ...

and owned by

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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

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. 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.

References

External links

The Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter
Newspapers published in Wisconsin Manitowoc County, Wisconsin Gannett publications {{wisconsin-newspaper-stub