Bradenton Herald
Encyclopedia
The Bradenton Herald is a McClatchy
newspaper
in Bradenton, Florida
, in the United States
. Since 2006, The Bradenton Herald has published an edition called the Lakewood Ranch Herald that focuses on local coverage of the rapidly growing eastern region of Manatee County
.
The McClatchy Company
The McClatchy Company is a publicly traded American publishing company based in Sacramento, California. It operates 30 daily newspapers in 15 states and has an average weekday circulation of 2.2 million and Sunday circulation of 2.8 million...
newspaper
Newspaper
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in Bradenton, Florida
Bradenton, Florida
Bradenton is a city in Manatee County, Florida, United States. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's 2007 population to be 53,471. Bradenton is the largest Principal City of the Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2007 estimated population of 682,833...
, in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Since 2006, The Bradenton Herald has published an edition called the Lakewood Ranch Herald that focuses on local coverage of the rapidly growing eastern region of Manatee County
Manatee County, Florida
Manatee County is a county in the state of Florida. According to the 2010 census by the U.S. Census Bureau there are 322,833 people living in Manatee Country.Manatee County is part of the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota Metropolitan Statistical Area...
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History
- 1922: Founded. The Bradenton Herald, a weekly that had been in existence since the turn of the century, merged with another weekly, The Manatee River Journal. The result was The Evening Herald, which 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.
- 1925: Sold to the R. W. Page Corp. of Columbus, Ga., in 1925
- 1973: Sold to Knight Newspapers, Inc.
- 1974: Knight Newspapers and Ridder Publications merge, and The Bradenton Herald becomes a Knight Ridder newspaper.
- 2006: Sold as one of the newspapers included in the sale of Knight Ridder newspapers to The McClatchy Company.