On September 11, 1879, the first edition of the
Logan Leader was published in Logan, Utah. Its first editor was
Frank J. Cannon. On September 3, 1880, the paper was acquired by brothers Benjamin F. Cummings and Horace G. Cummings. The Cummings family sold their printing plant to a group of local businessmen who on August 1, 1882, relaunched the
Leader as the
Utah Journal. In 1885, ownership was consolidated among John P. Smith, John E. Carlisle, and E.A. Stratford. By 1886, the paper claimed a circulation of 1,000. A year later Sloan sold paper to a group of businessmen, who renamed it to
The Journal. The group ran the paper for about three years and then leased it to Charles England and Jesse Earl, who then acquired ownership by 1900. In December 1925, Ralph R. Channell, owner of the
Smithfield Sentinel, and Jake A. Wahlen, owner of the
South Cache Courier of Hyrum, joined forces to launch the semiweekly
Cache Valley Herald in Logan, making it a competitor to the
Journal. The
Courier was merged into the
Sentinel at that time. In February 1926, Clyde F. Settle launched a new paper in Hyrum called the
South Cache Citizen. In July 1926, Ralph R. Channell sold his half stake in the
Herald to Leslie T. Foy. Wahlen maintained his interest, but dissolved the partnership and sold out to Foy later that year. Wahlen left so he could revive the
Citizen which had suspended publication several months prior. In 1928, Scripps-Canfiled, an affiliate of
Scripps League Newspapers, purchased the
Herald from Foy and expanded it into a daily paper. In 1931, Scripps purchased the
Logan Journal from Earl and England, and then merged it with the
Daily Herald to form the
Daily Herald Journal. In December 1975, Pioneer Newspapers spun off from Scripps and took the
Herald Journal with it. In 2017,
Pioneer News Group sold its papers to
Adams Publishing Group. Two years later the paper decreased its print editions from five a week to three. == Circulation ==