About
The Sun Herald is South Mississippi’s newspaper. As recognized with the 2006 Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service, the Sun Herald has dedicated itself to recording the history and telling the stories of the diverse communities comprising the Mississippi Gulf Coast for more than 125 years. As the flagship of a multi-media company, the Sun Herald reaches not only 137,000 print readers each week, but more than 263,000 South Mississippians read the Sun Herald or one of its sister publications in print or online every week. Through its web site (SunHerald.com), the Sun Herald shares the news of South Mississippi with more than a million unique visitors every month.
Launched as a weekly newspaper in Biloxi in 1884, the Herald expanded to the new city of Gulfport in 1905 and, in 1934, became the afternoon Daily Herald. In 1968, the Saturday edition was moved from evening to morning publication to make room for a new Sunday edition. In 1973, the newspaper’s publisher launched a new morning newspaper, the South Mississippi Sun. In 1985, the morning Sun and afternoon Daily Herald were merged into an all-day Sun Herald, which one year later dropped the evening edition and became a 7-day morning newspaper. That same year, the newspaper became part of the Knight Ridder newspaper family, as part of Knight Ridder’s purchase of the State Record Company of Columbia, SC, which had previously purchased the Daily Herald from the Wilkes family in 1968. With McClatchy Newspaper’s purchase of Knight Ridder in 2006, the Sun Herald and its print and online readers became part of the McClatchy multi-media family.
