Puyallup Herald
{{Short description|Weekly newspaper in Puyallup, Washington}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Puyallup Herald
| type = Weekly newspaper
| owners = McClatchy
| foundation = 1886
| language = English
| publishing_city = Puyallup, Washington
| circulation = 27,000
| circulation_date = 2022
| sister newspapers = The News Tribune
| ISSN = 0192-1401
| oclc = 5019614
| website = {{URL|thenewstribune.com/news/local/community/puyallup-herald/}}
}}
The Puyallup Herald is a weekly newspaper in Puyallup, Washington, covering local news, sports, business and community events. Published once a week on Thursday, The Herald provides news to Puyallup, South Hill, Bonney Lake, Sumner, and Edgewood. The newspaper is owned by McClatchy, and is published through The News Tribune.
History
The paper was founded as the Commerce in Tacoma, Washington, in 1886 and soon moved to Puyallup.{{cite news |title=Newspapers of Washington Territory |first=Edmond S. |last=Meany |work=The Washington Historical Quarterly |volume=14 |number=1 |date=January 1923 |url=https://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/WHQ/article/view/6379/5453 }} It was renamed The Puyallup Independent in 1898 and merged with The Sumner Herald in 1903, resulting in The Puyallup Valley Tribune.{{cite book |last1=Bagwell |first1=Steve |last2=Stapilus |first2=Randy |year=2013 |title=New Editions: The Northwest's newspapers as they were, are, and will be |publisher=Ridenbaugh Press |location=Carlton, Oregon |isbn=978-0-945648-10-9 |oclc=861618089 |url=https://archive.org/details/neweditionsnorth0000bagw/ |page=254 }} Editor and publisher Robert Montgomery was courted to run for governor of Washington in the 1920 Washington gubernatorial election, but declined.[https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QacjezaQKSUKTGtMo4DYMsEUl7ENqWzynuwqNofWK94vI6BtM3FRARkNfdULEFU-YwfqfJGjQE8GviTI5T6UhQCiwWkhup6uL9hb6AK0zZ7sFD2pXLKQaiIdZlE84-T55lUTddpgYgOZ9SZ9QudJYBMDhZOJe7rVhiM86KNEiPm_ev5q8BPfjo4MQmKaPZN567QJAPiASXtqtN3SFEvrdvugvuj5E5-Ep4ccbVfO8MA3Sha50cCDm0xgc2EcD6KeFQlQ8xQqQQ2aL-8-UgejWFXTvS5xJw The Washington Newspaper] Vol. 6 (1920){{Cite news |date=1920-08-13 |title=Quarryville Son Declines Crown |pages=17 |work=The News-Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90256510/quarryville-son-declines-crown/ |access-date=2021-12-08}} He continued as editor and publisher until his death in 1936.{{Cite news |date=May 9, 1936 |title=Obituary: Robert L. Montgomery Vol 69 Iss 19 |language=English |work=Editor and Publisher |publisher=Duncan McIntosh |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1936-05-09_69_19/page/44/mode/2up |access-date=2021-12-09}} The Chehalis Bee-Nugget praised the paper as "one of the outstanding weekly newspapers in the state" in a 1930 editorial.{{Cite news |date=1930-09-19 |title=Puyallup Valley Tribune |pages=8 |work=The Chehalis Bee-Nugget |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90256789/puyallup-valley-tribune/ |access-date=2021-12-08}}
A distinct line of newspapers in Puyallup also carried the name Puyallup Herald from 1911 to 1930.{{Cite news |date=1915-08-19 |title=We Finally Arrive |pages=8 |work=Aurora News-Register |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90363483/we-finally-arrive-north-end-news/ |access-date=2021-12-10}} That paper started as the Puyallup Republican in 1905 and faded after being renamed the Pierce County Shopper in 1946.{{Cite news |date=1918-07-21 |title=Puyallup News |pages=10 |work=The Tacoma Daily Ledger |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90255787/puyallup-news/ |access-date=2021-12-08}} That paper ceased publication in 1930.{{cite web |title=Puyallup herald |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085138/}}
The paper merged with the Pierce County Herald in 1967, and subsequently had several minor name changes. Renamed from Pierce County Herald (and increased circulation and size) in 1999.{{Cite news |date=1999-07-31 |title=Introducing The New Puyallup Herald (ad) |pages=93 |work=The News Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90255898/introducing-the-new-puyallup-herald-ad/ |access-date=2021-12-08}}
This newspaper is owned by McClatchy.Bagwell p. 27 In 2006, editor Roger Harnack was noted for criticizing the lack of transparency of the local police department and government entities.{{Cite news |title=Good Work in Rural Journalism, 2006 |url=https://www.uky.edu/CommInfoStudies/IRJCI/goodworks2006.htm |access-date=2021-12-09}}{{Cite news |date=March 24, 2006 |title=Weekly editor conducts Sunshine Week records audit; criticizes police |work=INSTITUTE FOR RURAL JOURNALISM & COMMUNITY ISSUES (IRJCI) |url=http://www.uky.edu/CommInfoStudies/IRJCI/goodworks.html |access-date=2021-12-09}} Brian McLean became the publisher in 2013.{{cite news |title=Editor moves up the ladder at two weeklies |date=August 2013 |work=The Washington Newspaper |url=https://www.dwt.com/-/media/files/publications/2013/08/correction-act-in-force-the-washington-newspaper/files/doranjohnson/fileattachment/doranjohnson.pdf }}
Editors and publishers
References
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External links
- [https://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/us/47/2642/6382 Mondo Times]
- [https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99006037/ Chronicling America entry] (and [https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085138/ entry for earlier Herald])
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=NsR1DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Puyallup+Herald%22&pg=PT248 book written by former columnist Hans Zeiger],[https://newspaperarchive.com/tags/Puyallup-Herald/ narchive]
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Category:Newspapers published in Washington (state)
Category:Pierce County, Washington
Category:McClatchy publications