''The News-Herald'' is a bi-weekly

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serving the Downriver suburbs of

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. It is based in Southgate, Michigan, and owned by

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as part of its Detroit region. The newspaper is published every Wednesday and Sunday.

History

The ''News-Herald''s history dates back to the 1870s, when the Rev. George W. Owen established the Wyandotte ''Herald'' in Wyandotte, MI. After merging with the Wyandotte ''Daily News'', from 1944 it was known as the Wyandotte ''News-Herald.'' The Mellus Newspapers started in the 1920s, subsequently flourished for decades under famous publisher/editor William Mellus. The current ''News-Herald'' format was established under the Heritage Newspapers brand in 1986, when the late industrialist Heinz Prechter brought the old ''News-Herald'' (based in Wyandotte, MI) and Mellus Newspapers (based in Lincoln Park, MI) from SEM Newspapers Inc. and combined them into a single Downriver publication each Wednesday. In 1988, The ''News-Herald'' relocated to their current offices at Interstate 75 and Northline Road in Southgate, MI and launched "Weekender" editions in select communities, which was later incorporated into ''Heritage Sunday'' and is now known as the ''Sunday News-Herald''. A Friday edition of ''The News-Herald'' delivered exclusively via the

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began publishing on March 3, 2006 and was discontinued after the April 20, 2012 edition. Following the 2013 merger of 21st Century Media and

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to form Digital First Media, the current owner, the ''News-Herald'' was placed in 2014 into Digital First's newly formed Detroit region, which also includes longtime sister papers ''

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'' and ''

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''. The other 21st Century-owned newspapers in Michigan were placed into Digital First's Michigan region, headquartered in Pontiac. In 2016 severe cuts to the newsroom left them with one sports reporter who split time also covering sports for a sister newspaper in Dearborn, and three full time reporters to cover the communities Downriver.

External links

''The News-Herald''

at Bacon Memorial District Library of Wyandotte ''Herald'' (1895–1943) and ''News-Herald'' (1944-Present)

References

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