The Herald-Sun (Durham, North Carolina)
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Paxton Media Group |
| Publisher | Rick Bean |
| Editor | Bob Ashley |
| Founded | 1853: The Durham Morning Herald 1889: The Durham Sun 1991: The Herald-Sun |
| Headquarters | 2828 Pickett Road Durham, North Carolina 27705  United States
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| ISSN | 1055-4467 |
| Website | HeraldSun.com |
Coordinates: 35°58′27.91″N 78°57′32.93″W / 35.9744194°N 78.9591472°W
The Herald-Sun is a daily newspaper in Durham, North Carolina, published by the McClatchy Company.
The Herald-Sun began publication on January 1, 1991 as the result of a merger of The Durham Morning Herald and The Durham Sun.
The Herald-Sun and The Durham Morning Herald before they were owned and operated by the Rollins Family, which had been in management positions since 1895. Edward Tyler Rollins Jr., former owner, board chairman and publisher of The Herald-Sun, died November 5, 2006, just shy of two years after selling to Paxton Media Group.
The Durham Morning Herald began publication in 1893, as a result of the reorganization of The Durham Globe from a daily to a weekly paper. Four former employees of the downsized Globe, itself an outgrowth of the merger of Durham's first daily, The Tobacco Plant and The Durham Daily Recorder, organized a competitor newspaper, The Globe Herald, which would soon be renamed The Morning Herald.
In 1929, the Durham Morning Herald Company acquired The Durham Sun, an evening daily that had been in publication in one form or another since 1889.
The late Rick Kaspar was the first person outside of the Rollins Family to run the century-old newspaper. He was recruited by the Rollins Family to make changes and bring the company into the 21st century of newspaper publishing. In 1991, he successfully merged the Durham Herald Co.'s two daily papers to form The Herald Sun. "Rick was devoted to his family, to his community and to his newspaper," noted Durham Herald Co. Chairman E.T. Rollins Jr.
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