![]() Two weeks later, an ad for PeoplesChoice Credit Union ran, depicting a "Fee Bandit" character that used stock photography of a Hasidic Jew to represent the character rather than the Old West banker intended for the visual representation. Ī paid advertisement in the newspaper's Febru"religion and values" section, placed by the First Baptist Church of South Portland, listed the sermon as "The Only Way to Destroy the Jewish Race" this caused outrage in Greater Portland's Jewish community and led to an apology by the minister of that church. The Press Herald and its sister publications were reorganized as Blethen Maine Newspapers, an independent division of The Seattle Times Company. Gannett officials cited shared values the Times Company was also a family-owned business its owners, the Blethen family, had roots in Maine. Ultimately, it decided to sell the Press Herald to The Seattle Times Company. In 1998, the family trust that ran what was by now Guy Gannett Communications decided to break up its media interests. In 1923, Gannett built a new building to house all of the paper's operations on 390 Congress Street across from Portland City Hall. In the 1920s, Gannett's media empire in Maine grew: he purchased the Portland Evening Express and Daily Advertiser in 1925 (whose name he shortened to Evening Express) and by 1929 also bought Augusta's Kennebec Journal and Waterville's Central Maine Morning Sentinel. They want and should be given the news and all the news fully and uncolored by any personal or political consideration." In a letter to readers, Gannett wrote, "The American people think for themselves. Under Gannett's ownership, the traditionally pro-Republican newspaper adopted a balanced editorial approach during the 1922 gubernatorial campaign, the newspaper published Democratic candidate William Robinson Pattangall's criticism of the Republican incumbent, Governor Percival Baxter. The Press Herald 's circulation skyrocketed in the first year of Gannett's ownership, when the paper sold for 2 cents circulation went from a little over 18,000 to nearly 29,000. The first edition of the Portland Press Herald was published in November 21, 1921. Gannett, who had bought the Herald earlier the same year. ![]() In 1921, the Portland Daily Press was merged with the Portland Herald to form the Portland Press Herald in a sale of the Press from then U.S. Cleaves, and gubernatorial candidate Joseph Homan Manley, who the paper had previously opposed. In 1904 the paper was bought by a syndicate of Maine Republicans, including Henry B. The paper quickly gained the largest circulation in Portland, and was one of five daily newspapers in the city to survive to the 20th century. On the morning of Friday, July 6, the Portland Daily Press published a double-sided handbill about the fire. Its first issue, published June 23, 1862, announced strong support for Abraham Lincoln and condemned slavery as "the foulest blot upon our national character." Its offices, along with the offices of all the newspapers in the city, were destroyed on Jin the Great Fire of 1866. The Portland Daily Press was founded in June 1862 by J. Today, it is the flagship of MaineToday Media publications and is part of the state’s largest news-gathering organization, including the newspapers of the Lewiston-based Sun Media Group. ![]() For most of the 20th century, it was the cornerstone of Guy Gannett Communications, before being sold to The Seattle Times Company in 1998. The Press Herald mainly serves southern Maine and is focused on the greater metropolitan area of Portland.įounded in 1862, its roots extend to Maine’s earliest newspapers, the Falmouth Gazette & Weekly Advertiser, started in 1785, and the Eastern Argus, first published in Portland in 1803. The Portland Press Herald is a daily newspaper based in South Portland, Maine with a statewide readership. The Portland Press Herald is produced, printed and distributed from the company’s headquarters in South Portland, Maine, with news bureaus in downtown Portland and at the State House in Augusta.
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