 The Wausau Daily Herald's former offices on Scott Street, Wausau | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Gannett |
| Publisher | Andy Fisher |
| Editor | Jamie Rokus |
| Founded | 1907 |
| Headquarters | Wausau, WI |
| Circulation | 15,000 (as of 2022)[1] |
| ISSN | 0887-4271 |
| Website | wausaudailyherald |
TheWausau Daily Herald is a daily morningbroadsheet printed inWausau, Wisconsin. It is the primarynewspaper in Wausau and is distributed throughoutMarathon andLincoln counties. TheDaily Herald is owned by theGannett Company, which owns ten other newspapers inWisconsin.
The paper traces its roots to a paper established as theTorch of Liberty in 1875. After a series of mergers and renamings, it eventually became known as theWausau Daily Record-Herald in 1907, with the first edition being printed on 2 December of that year. In 1958 it moved into offices on Scott Street in Wausau.[2]
In 2017 Gannett announced the closure of the newspaper's printing plant in Wassau, with production moved toAppleton.[3] In 2018 the Appleton facility was also closed with printing moved to a facility in West Milwaukee.[4] In August 2021 the sale of theDaily Herald's Scott Street offices in Wausau was announced by Gannett.[2]
TheWausau Daily Herald was a 1985 finalist for thePulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for "a special section on Wausau's growing Indochinese refugee population, the Hmong" by Pam Sprague and Rob Orcutt.[5]
