The ''Omaha World-Herald'' is a daily
newspaper
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in the
midwestern
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United States, the primary newspaper of the
Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. It was locally owned from its founding in 1885 until 2020, when it was sold to the newspaper chain
Lee Enterprises
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by its most recent local owner,
Warren Buffett
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, chairman of Omaha-based
Berkshire Hathaway
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.
For more than a century it circulated daily throughout the entirety of
Nebraska
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— a state that is 430 miles long. It also circulated daily throughout the entirety of
Iowa
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, as well as in parts of
Kansas
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,
South Dakota
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,
Missouri
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,
Colorado
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and
Wyoming
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. It retrenched during the financial crisis of 2008, ending far-flung circulation and restricting daily delivery to an area in Nebraska and Iowa within an approximately 100-mile radius of Omaha.
Background
The newspaper was the world's last to print both daily morning and afternoon editions, a practice it ended in March 2016.
The World-Herald was the largest employee-owned newspaper in the United States from 1979 until 2011: Omaha construction magnate
Peter Kiewit bought the newspaper and its television station, the local ABC affiliate, in 1962 for $40.1 million from Omaha-based World Publishing Co. Upon Kiewit's death in 1979, he arranged for the paper to be spun off to its employees. At the time, the newspaper reported daily circulation of 235,589 and Sunday circulation of 301,682.
Upon his death, Kiewit, who had run a
Fortune 500 construction and mining company, also had arranged to keep 20 percent of the resulting Omaha World-Herald Co. in the hands of the Peter Kiewit Foundation. The foundation's hold of 20 percent of the company's shares kept the newspaper from being easily sold to an out-of-town competitor — the fate of many major metropolitan newspapers during the 1970s through the 1990s: Its ownership structure was called "the most bullet-proof in the industry" when it came to corporate takeovers.
In 2011, Omaha native
Warren Buffett
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purchased the paper for $200 million through his holding company,
Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. () is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Its main business and source of capital is insurance, from which it invests the float (the retained premiu ...
.
The newspaper's stock had clocked a compound annual growth rate of 18 percent from 1985 through 2007, but the global financial crisis of 2008 hammered it financially. Employees were said to be ready to cash out, with the blessing of the Kiewit Foundation: Even as the newspaper had been able to maintain a circulation penetration rate in its home market that ranked as the U.S.'s seventh-highest, its circulation by the time of the sale had fallen to 170,455 daily and 228,344 on Sunday.
Buffett's BH Media Group was unable to turn around the precipitous fall in circulation and advertising revenue, and Buffett eventually threw in the towel, selling The World-Herald and its other stable of newspapers to
Lee Enterprises
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for $140 million in cash in January 2020. Buffett had said the previous year that newspapers were "toast." Buffett financed the Lee purchase, which also refinanced Lee's debt so that Berkshire would become its sole lender, for $576 million at a 9 percent interest rate. The transaction did not include the newspaper's physical property, which Lee entered into an agreement to lease from Berkshire.
As of 2020, The World-Herald for the first time since its founding in 1885 is no longer locally owned. Lee is based in Davenport, Iowa. The New York Stock Exchange warned Lee in 2020 that its stock was at risk of de-listing because of its persistently low share price below $1.00 a share; it re-listed its stock on the Nasdaq exchange in 2021 and has said it has a plan for re-focusing its newspapers to digital.
The newspaper's newsroom staff has shrunk substantially, from more than 200 in 2015 to 118 at the beginning of 2018 — to 62 by the end of 2020, according to its news staff's union.
The newspaper closed its Washington, D.C. bureau in 2020. It was among the first — if not the first — metropolitan newspapers from outside the capital area to open its own Washington bureau, with archives dating back to at least 1893 carrying bylines from The World-Herald's bureau in the capital.
Broadcasting
The World-Herald brought the
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network to Omaha in 1957 when it opened its television station. The ABC affiliate, which the newspaper brought to air on Sept. 15, 1957, was broadcast on Channel 7 under the call letters
KETV
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. KETV was marketed as "Omaha World-Herald Television," and was owned by Herald Corp., a fully owned subsidiary of The World-Herald's publisher, World Publishing Co. It was the Omaha area's third television station, behind
WOWT
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and
KMTV-TV
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.
Peter Kiewit and Sons, Inc., the construction and mining company that had bought The World-Herald's holding company in 1962 for $40 million, sold the KETV television station in 1976 to St. Louis-based
Pulitzer Inc., the parent company of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for $9 million in cash.
The newspaper operated the
KOWH and
KOAD-FM radio stations from their founding in 1941. On KOWH, the
Top 40
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radio format was invented by
Todd Storz
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, who had bought the radio stations from The World-Herald and operated them under the Mid-Continent Broadcasting Co. name.
Pulitzer Prizes
''The World-Herald'' has won three
Pulitzer Prizes, including the esteemed
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, awarded in 1943.
* 1920
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
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:
Harvey E. Newbranch for an editorial entitled "
Law and the Jungle", which decried the lynching of a black man on the lawn of the
Douglas County Courthouse. Newbranch was the first editorial writer to win a Pulitzer under his own name—as opposed to awards for unsigned staff editorials—in opinion writing.
* 1943
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service: For its initiative and originality in planning a statewide campaign for the collection of scrap metal for the war effort. The Nebraska plan was adopted on a national scale by the daily newspapers, resulting in a united effort which succeeded in supplying American war industries with necessary scrap material.
* 1944
Pulitzer Prize for Photography
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:
Earle L. Bunker for his photo entitled "
Homecoming
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...
".
History and Supreme Court Case
The newspaper was founded in 1885 by U.S. Sen.
Gilbert M. Hitchcock, as the ''Omaha Evening World''. The first issue was published on August 24, 1885. It purchased
George L. Miller's ''Omaha Herald'' in 1889.
The paper was established as an independent political voice but quickly moved to the
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column. Former U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Rep. and three-time presidential candidate
William Jennings Bryan
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, a Democrat and onetime member of the Populist Party, was its editor in 1894–1896. Hitchcock, meanwhile, served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and, starting in 1911, two Senate terms. The World-Herald was a more objective voice than the
Hearst-owned ''
Omaha Bee
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'', which tended to sensationalize news to drum up sales.
![Freedom Center, Omaha](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Freedom_Center%2C_Omaha.jpg)
Hitchcock's son-in-law,
Henry Doorly
Henry Doorly (November 9, 1879 – June 21, 1961) was the chairman of the World Publishing Company and publisher of the ''Omaha World-Herald'' in Nebraska, founded by his father-in-law,
U.S. Senator Gilbert Hitchcock. Doorly worked for the co ...
, took control of the paper after his death in 1934. The editorial page began leaning
Republican
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after Hitchcock's death. Over his lifetime, Doorly served 58 years at the paper.
In 1962, the World Publishing Company, owned solely by heirs of the Hitchcock/Doorly families, was on the verge of selling The ''World-Herald'' to the
Newhouse chain, but instead accepted an offer from local construction magnate
Peter Kiewit. When he died, Kiewit left provisions in his will to ensure that the paper would remain locally owned, with a large part of the plan securing employee ownership.
On May 8, 1974, The World-Herald was the first paper in the United States to call for Richard Nixon to resign after the full content of the
White House tapes became known. The newspaper, whose conservative editorial page had endorsed Nixon three times, called for his resignation under the headline: "A Matter of Morality: Nixon Should Resign."
Time
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Magazine 12 days later called The World-Herald's editorial "startling" and labeling it seeming "apostasy."
Throughout the mid to late 20th Century, the newspaper was a major force for press freedom: Former publisher Harold Andersen, who ran the company from 1966 until 1989, was chairman of the
World Press Freedom Committee
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, chairman of the
International Federation of Newspaper Publishers and chairman of the
American Newspaper Publishers Association
The News Media Alliance (formerly known as the Newspaper Association of America until 2016[The Associated Press
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.
Most significantly, the newspaper was the lead in the landmark 1976
Supreme Court case
Nebraska Press Association vs. Stuart, which was seen as one of the "Big Three" cases pertaining to the press and freedom of speech: The others were
New York Times Co. vs. Sullivan and
New York Times Co. vs. the United States. As for its case, The World-Herald was said to be "adamant" about taking the issue all the way to the Supreme Court after a Nebraska judge, Hugh Stuart, had tried to implement a gag order on reporting the details of a local criminal trial.
The Supreme Court decision, which was unanimous, strongly underlined the
First Amendment
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concept of "no prior restraint." World-Herald Editor G. Woodson Howe was head of the association, which was funded in large part by The World-Herald. The case was argued by
E. Barrett Prettyman and
Floyd Abrams
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Abrams represented ''The New York Times'' ...
.
Chief Justice of the United States Warren E. Burger
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wrote the opinion of the court. "Prior restraints on speech and publication are the most serious and least tolerable infringement on First Amendment Rights," he wrote. "The press does not simply publish information about trials, but guards against the miscarriage of justice by subjecting the police, prosecutors, and judicial processes to extensive public scrutiny and criticism," he said in the opinion.
Expansion
The World-Herald Co. during the 1980s and 1990s substantially expanded its business from its sole newspaper: In 1990 it purchased the
Brookings Register
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and
Huron Plainsman
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History
The ''Huron Plainsman'' ...
in South Dakota for an undisclosed price. In 1993 it purchased the Carlsbad Current-Argus in New Mexico for an undisclosed price. In 1994, it purchased
The Record in Stockton, California, for an undisclosed price; it sold the newspaper in 2004 to
Dow Jones, publisher of
The Wall Street Journal
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, for $144 million. In 1999, it purchased the
Ames Tribune
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in Iowa for an undisclosed price from former
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President
Michael Gartner
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Biography
A graduate of Carleton College and the New York University School of Law, ...
.
The newspaper also partially owned the world's largest elections equipment maker and election operations servicing company, Omaha-based
Election Systems and Software. It sold its share of the business, which it purchased in 1986, in 2011 for an undisclosed amount.
On November 30, 2011, the ''Omaha World-Herald Co.'' announced that
Berkshire Hathaway
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, headed by Omaha native
Warren Buffett
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, would buy the newspaper for $200 million, including debt. Also included in the sale were the World-Herald subsidiary newspapers in
Council Bluffs, Iowa,
Kearney, Nebraska,
Grand Island, Nebraska,
York, Nebraska
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,
North Platte, Nebraska
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and
Scottsbluff, Nebraska
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.
In 2012 it purchased the
Waco Tribune and the
Bryan-College Station Eagle
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, both in Texas, for an undisclosed price. In 2012 the company now under Berkshire Hathaway ownership purchased all of the assets of the
Media General
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company, including the
Richmond Times-Dispatch and the
Tulsa World
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, for $142 million in cash; the deal did not include Media General's
Tampa Tribune
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The newspaper also published a ''St. Pe ...
property. The company also purchased
WPLG
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-TV, the ABC affiliate in Miami, under Berkshire Hathaway ownership.
In January 2020,
Lee Enterprises
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announced an agreement with Berkshire Hathaway to acquire BH Media Group's publications and ''The Buffalo News'' for $140 million. The deal did not include the WPLG-TV television station in Miami, which Berkshire continues to own as of 2021.
Website, printing plant and headquarters
The Omaha World-Herald operates the websit
Omaha.com the Omaha area's most popular website by all measures of traffic. In April 2021, it saw monthly unique visits to its website of 2.51 million.
The company dubs its downtown Omaha print production center the
John Gottschalk Freedom Center, named after a former publisher of the newspaper who also was national president of the Boy Scouts of America from 2008 to 2010.
The Freedom Center also houses its three printing presses, which can each print 75,000 papers per hour, and are considered to be some of the most advanced in the world.
The facility was opened in August 2001, and cost almost $125 million to build. It consists of three structures designed by
HDR, Inc. They include a five-level, 321,000-square-foot (29,800 m
2) press hall featuring 3 MAN Roland presses from Germany; a 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m
2) paper-storage facility capable of storing 3,000 rolls of newsprint and a 600-stall
parking garage. Large portions of the exterior are glass, allowing downtown traffic to see the storage facility and presses.
The storage facility/press hall is connected by a tunnel than runs underneath 13th Street in Omaha. Most newspaper facilities of this size have been built on greenfield sites: The Omaha World-Herald was dedicated to keeping its newspaper facilities downtown, which required a more vertical structure, and the tunnel. Transfer Vehicle System (TVS) robotic vehicles are used to deliver newsprint to the press.
The presses weigh 1,661 U.S. tons and can produce 75,000 newspapers per hour. The John Gottschalk Freedom Center produces four editions of the ''Omaha World-Herald'' daily, in addition to a Sunday edition and daily editions of the ''Daily NonPareil'' for neighboring Southwest Iowa.
Construction of the modern facility served as the impetus for redesigning the layout of the actual newspaper.
In 2006, the company purchased the 16-story former
Northwestern Bell/
Qwest Communications
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building in
downtown Omaha
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as a new base for its news, editorial, circulation and business operations.
Notable staff
*
Gilbert M. Hitchcock: founder, editor (''Omaha World'')
*
George L. Miller: founder (''Omaha Herald'')
*
Thomas Tibbles: assistant editor (''Omaha Herald'')
*
Elia W. Peattie: Chief editorial writer, 1889–1896
*
William Jennings Bryan
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: Editor, 1894–1896
*
Henry Doorly
Henry Doorly (November 9, 1879 – June 21, 1961) was the chairman of the World Publishing Company and publisher of the ''Omaha World-Herald'' in Nebraska, founded by his father-in-law,
U.S. Senator Gilbert Hitchcock. Doorly worked for the co ...
: Editor, publisher, 1934–1950
*
Peter Kiewit: Owner, 1963–1979
*
Harvey E. Newbranch: Writer, winner of 1920 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing at the paper
*
Paul Henderson: reporter, winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 1982 when working at
The Seattle Times
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*
John Gottschalk: Former publisher and
CEO; former World-Herald Co. chairman; philanthropist
*
Terry J. Kroeger: Former publisher and CEO of both BH Media Group and The Omaha World-Herald Co. Now owner of Smith Kroeger Advertising based in Omaha, Nebraska.
*
Jeff Koterba:
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since 1989
*
James Keogh: Reporter
*
Ed Koterba
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Li ...
, writer and photographer
[Morgret, Ed Koterba (2016) "Introduction". ''The Essential Ed Koterba'', pp. xlix–lii. MCP Books. ]
*
Rainbow Rowell
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: Author (1995-2012)
See also
* ''
Omaha Daily Bee
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''
*
History of Omaha, Nebraska
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