The Bradenton Herald
Circulation 6,117 Daily | 8,131 Sunday (as of 2021)[2] | |
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The Bradenton Herald is a newspaper based in Bradenton, Florida, in the United States.
History
On September 15, 1922, Volume 1, Number 1 was published as The Evening Herald. It was a merger of two weekly papers: the Manatee River Journal, which had published since the 1880s, and The Bradentown Herald Weekly. The newspaper was at No. 414 Pine Street in downtown Bradenton; the phone number, 28. In the mid-1920s, Pine Street was renamed and the newspaper's home was at 401 13th St. W. (It would remain there until July 1984, when it moved to its present home at 102 Manatee Ave. W.) The Evening Herald was published Monday through Saturday until 1926, when the Saturday publication was replaced by a Sunday edition and the name was changed to The Bradenton Herald. In 1953 the Saturday edition resumed.
Co-owners Raymond P. Sponenbarger and Robert W. Bentley sold the paper in 1925 to the R.W. Page Corp. of Columbus, Ga. Alvah H. Chapman Sr. became publisher and served in that capacity until 1937 when W. E. Page Sr., the company's president, was killed in a car accident en route to Bradenton from Columbus. Chapman then became president of the Page Corp. and moved to Columbus with his family. His son, Alvah H. Chapman Jr., would follow in his father's footsteps and retired in 1989 as chairman of
In 2006, The Bradenton Herald was again sold, as one of the newspapers included in the sale of Knight Ridder newspapers to The
The Herald entered cyberspace in January 1996 when its website, www.Bradenton.com, was launched as Bradenton Herald Internet Plus (BHIP). The Bradenton Herald online edition went behind a paywall in December 2012. Currently subscribers can get unlimited access for 99 cents for a trial month and under $7 a month after that.
The Bradenton Herald moved in September 2013 to its new headquarters in downtown Bradenton located at 1111 Third Ave. W.
In May 2016 The Bradenton Herald discontinued production of its zoned edition, The Lakewood Ranch Herald, which had focused on local coverage of the rapidly growing eastern region of Manatee County since 2006.
On February 13, 2020, The McClatchy Company and 54 affiliated companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The company cited pension obligations and excessive debt as the primary reasons for the filing.[3][4][5]
See also
References
- ^ "Our Markets". Sacramento, California: McClatchy Company. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
- ^ "McClatchy | Markets". 2022-02-16. Archived from the original on 2022-02-16. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
- ^ Ronalds-Hannon, Eliza (2020-02-13). "Newspaper Chain McClatchy Files for Bankruptcy Protection". Bloomberg Law. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
- ^ "Publisher McClatchy Co. Files For Bankruptcy, Disrupting 30 Newspapers". NPR.org. NPR. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ^ Maidenberg, Micah (13 February 2020). "Newspaper Publisher McClatchy Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
External links
- Official website
- Today's The Bradenton Herald front page at the Freedom Forum website
- The McClatchy Company's subsidiary profile of the Bradenton Herald
Further reading
Radtke Russell, Pam (December 29, 1996). "HERALD OWNERSHIP THROUGH THE YEARS". The Bradenton Herald.