History
The earliest predecessor of the Daily Herald, the Provo Daily Times, was founded in 1873. It was the first newspaper to be published in Provo, when Utah was still a frontier territory. Statehood was not granted to Utah until 1896.
The paper eventually changed its name to the Enquirer, and then to the Provo Post. A competitor, the Utah County Democrat, was founded in 1898 and renamed the Provo Herald in 1909. In 1924 the Post and the Herald merged, forming a final foundation for the later Daily Herald.
The company was purchased in 1926 by James G. Scripps, eldest son of newspaper magnate E. W. Scripps. The Scripps family held the newspaper until the mid-1990s, when it was sold to Pulitzer, which held it for a decade. In 2005 Pulitzer was sold to Lee Enterprises.
In February 2009, the Daily Herald announced it would discontinue five weekly papers that had covered northern Utah County: the American Fork Citizen, Pleasant Grove Review, Lehi Free Press, Lone Peak Press and Orem Times. Subscribers to those papers, which were published every Thursday and had a combined circulation of 5,800, instead began receiving Thursday issues of the Herald, leading to a higher subscription count that day.
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