''The News Herald'' is a daily newspaper serving the city of

Panama City, Florida Panama City is a city in and the county seat of Bay County, Florida, United States. Located along U.S. Highway 98 (US 98), it is the largest city between Tallahassee and Pensacola. It is the more populated city of the Panama City–Lynn Ha ...

in the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

. It is located at 501 W. 11th St. in Panama City.

History

Forerunners to the current newspaper were ''The St Andrews Bay News'', founded in 1915, published by Frank Stitzer and edited by G.M. West. This paper was a daily, except Sunday. A second paper, also publishing daily except Sunday, was the ''Panama City Herald'', founded in 1935 under the direction of John H. Perry with editorship by Charles T. White. In 1937 the two papers merged as ''The News Herald'', printing daily except Sunday by Bay County Publishers. Later this was revised to daily except Saturday. In 1952 the papers split into ''The News'', publishing seven days a week, and ''The Herald'', publishing daily except Saturday. In 1970 ''The News Herald'' reunited as a seven-day a week daily under Freedom Newspapers. ''The News Herald'' was owned by

Freedom Communications Freedom Communications, Inc., was an American media conglomerate that operated daily and weekly newspapers, websites and mobile applications, as well as ''Coast Magazine'' and other specialty publications. Headquartered at 625 N. Grand Avenue in ...

until 2012, when Freedom sold its Florida and North Carolina papers to

Halifax Media Group Halifax Media Group was an American newspaper company owning more than 30 newspapers in five Southeastern U.S. States. It was founded on March 31, 2010 when a group of investors purchased ''The Daytona Beach News-Journal'' from the Davidson famil ...

. In 2015, Halifax was acquired by

New Media Investment Group Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.Pulitzer Prize for Public Service The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. It recognizes a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper or news site through the use of its journalis ...

"for its three-year campaign against entrenched power and corruption, with resultant reforms in Panama City and

Bay County Bay County is the name of three counties: * Bay County, Florida, United States * Bay County, Michigan, United States * Baicheng County Baicheng County () as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Bay County (pronounced l ...

."The Pulitzer Prizes for 1962
pulitzer.org; retrieved April 2008

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