''The Herald-Times'' is a daily

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serving

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and surrounding areas. The newspaper won the Blue Ribbon Daily award in 1975, 1984 2007, and 2014, naming it the best daily newspaper in the state of Indiana in those years. The newspaper is currently owned by newspaper conglomerate

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, acquired the newspaper from Dagmar Riley. Scott C. Schurz served as its publisher and chief editor from 1966 to 2002. The word Daily was dropped in 1977 and the name changed to the Herald-Times in 1989 while the newspaper switched from an evening publication to a morning publication. Starting in 1966, the newspaper produced a joint Sunday-only publication with its sister newspaper, the Times-Mail, in neighboring

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called the ''Sunday Herald-Times'' that was distributed to the expanded readership of both communities. In 2001, the name of the Sunday newspaper was changed to the ''Hoosier Times'' and distributed to a much larger area. Bloomington Herald Times

Schurz Communications exited the publishing business in January 2019 and sold the newspaper to GateHouse Media, which merged with

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seven months later. Its building sold to the school district in 2022.https://bloomingtonian.com/2022/11/16/herald-times-building-scooped-up-by-mccsc-for-2-9-million/

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