The ''Republican Herald'' is a daily
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, spor ...
serving
Pottsville,
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The newspaper is owned by
Times-Shamrock Communications.
History
The ''Republican-Herald'' was founded in 1884 as ''The Daily Republican'' by Joseph Henry Zerbey. In 1995, J.H. Zerbey Newspapers, Inc., the parent company of the ''Pottsville Republican,'' purchased the 120-year-old ''Shenandoah Evening Herald'', to form the ''Pottsville Republican & Evening Herald''. Times Shamrock Communications purchased J.H. Zerbey Newspapers and subsequently the newspaper in 2003. In 2004, the newspaper became a morning newspaper, renamed the ''Republican & Herald''. In 2009, the "&" was dropped from the cover title.
In 2005, the paper had an average daily circulation of 26,747. As of 2019, newsstand prices were $1.00 for the daily edition and $2.00 for the combined Saturday/Sunday "Weekend Edition".
In 1979, writers
Gilbert M. Gaul and Elliot G. Jaspin won a
Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting
The Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded since 1953, under one name or another, for a distinguished example of investigative reporting by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series in a U.S. news publicat ...
for stories on the destruction of the Blue Coal Company by men with ties to organized crime.
1979 Pulitzer Prize winners
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See also
* List of newspapers in Pennsylvania
References
External links
''The Republican - Herald''
Republican and Herald, The
Pottsville, Pennsylvania
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