The
Republican-Herald was founded in 1884 as
The Daily Republican by
Joseph Henry Zerbey. In 1995, J.H. Zerbey Newspapers, Inc., the parent company of the
Pottsville Republican, purchased the 120-year-old
Shenandoah Evening Herald, to form the
Pottsville Republican & Evening Herald. Times Shamrock Communications purchased J.H. Zerbey Newspapers and subsequently the newspaper in 2003. In 2004, the newspaper became a morning newspaper, renamed the
Republican & Herald. In 2009, the "&" was dropped from the cover title. In 2005, the paper had an average daily circulation of 26,747. As of 2019, newsstand prices were $1.00 for the daily edition and $2.00 for the combined Saturday/Sunday "Weekend Edition". In 1979, writers
Gilbert M. Gaul and Elliot G. Jaspin won a
Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting for stories on the destruction of the Blue Coal Company by men with ties to organized crime. In August 2023,
Times-Shamrock Communications sold the newspaper and three other daily newspapers to
MediaNews Group, a subsidiary of Alden Global Capital. ==See also==