The ''El Paso Herald-Post'' was an afternoon daily newspaper in
El Paso, Texas
El Paso (; "the pass") is a city in and the seat of El Paso County in the western corner of the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the 23rd-largest city in the U.S., the ...
, USA. It was the successor to the El Paso Herald, first published in 1881, and the El Paso Post, founded by the
E. W. Scripps Company in 1922. The papers merged in 1931 under Scripps ownership.
The ''Herald-Post'' was nominated for two
Pulitzer Prizes in 1987 for a story about a Mexican drug lord and for its literacy campaign. It later launched the El Paso area's first online news site in 1996. When the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain shut the paper down in 1997, it cited a substantial decline in circulation, similar to that experienced by other afternoon newspapers in the U.S. at the time.
On August 24, 2015, a former local news employee revived the ''El Paso Herald-Post'' brand by launching a website with the same name. However, the online-only publication has no affiliation with the former newspaper.
External links
"Texas' largest afternoon daily newspaper publishes final edition" Associated Press
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, October 11, 1997
''El Paso Herald''hosted by th
Portal to Texas History''El Paso Herald-Post''homepage from 1996, hosted by th
Internet Archive
El Paso, Texas
Defunct newspapers published in Texas
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