The ''Tri-City Herald'' is a daily
newspaper
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based in
Kennewick, Washington
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, United States. Owned by
The McClatchy Company
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, the newspaper serves southeastern
Washington state
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, including the three cities of Kennewick,
Pasco and
Richland (which are collectively known as the
Tri-Cities Tri-Cities most often refers to:
*Tri-Cities, Tennessee, United States
*Tri-Cities, Washington, United States
Tri-City, Tricity or Tri-Cities may also refer to:
Populated places
Americas
Canada
*Tri-Cities (British Columbia), consisting of Co ...
). The ''Herald'' also serves the smaller cities of
Benton City,
Connell,
Prosser and
West Richland. It is the only major
English-language
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newspaper in Washington east of
Yakima
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and south of
Spokane
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, and includes local and national news, opinion columns, sports information, movie listings and
comic strips among other features.
The paper was founded in 1918 as the weekly ''Pasco Herald.'' In 1947, Glenn C. Lee and Robert Philip bought the paper, moved it to Kennewick and transformed it into the area's first daily paper, coining the name 'Tri-Cities' as part of the paper's name. Lee and Philip sold the paper to McClatchy in 1979. After over 30 years as an afternoon paper, it became a morning paper in 1984.
It added a Saturday edition in 1987.
In 1950, striking workers of the Herald launched a morning competitor, ''
Columbia Basin News'', in Pasco. From 1950 until the summer of 1963, the Tri-Cities was one of the smallest U.S. markets with two competing daily newspapers. ''Columbia Basin News'' printed its last issue in 1963.
References
External links
''Tri-City Herald'' official Web site''Tri-City Herald'' official mobile Web siteSportsTriCities.com, the ''Tri-City Herald's'' sports-only Web site
* ttp://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86071980/ ''Pasco Herald'' archiveat Library of Congress
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Newspapers published in Washington (state)
McClatchy publications
Tri-Cities, Washington
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