Plainview Daily Herald is a daily newspaper in Plainview, Texas, USA covering local news, sports, business, jobs, and community events.

The newspaper is published six days a week - Monday through Friday and on Sunday.

The Daily Herald traces its roots to the founding of the weekly Hale County Hesperian in October 1889. Soon after the Hesperian began publishing, one of its founders, D.B. Hill, sold his interest to a partner who, in turn, quickly sold the newspaper to R.F. Cates. He, in turn, traded the newspaper to J.M. Shafer in June 1891 for a wagon and team. Shafer dropped the Hesperian title in favor of The Hale County Herald -- a name in one form or another that has appeared on the newspaper’s banner for the past 97 years. Shafer published The Herald until 1911, with his son, Tom Shafer, serving as editor from 1904-11. The elder Shafer then sold the newspaper to Buford O. Brown, his brother Ben Brown (a dentist) and J.E. Willis (a druggist). In 1913, about a year after E.B. Miller first acquired a part interest in the newspaper from its owners, he and H.S. Hilburn teamed up to operate The Herald under the name of the Herald Publishing Co. Miller and Hilburn continued to operate the paper as a semi-weekly, which it became in 1912. The Herald Publishing Co. established its own daily newspaper, the Plainview Daily Herald, in January 1913 while continuing to print its semi-weekly edition. The publication went back to a twice-weekly edition during 1914. Fifteen years later, in 1929, The Plainview Daily Herald was reborn when The Herald was combined with the Plainview News. The newspaper was purchased from the Allison family by The Hearst Corporation in January 1979.

Circulation: 4,144 copies

This newspaper is owned by Hearst Corporation.

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Kevin Lewis is the editor of the Plainview Daily Herald.

 Mailing address: 820 Broadway, Plainview, TX 79072

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