Sunday, October 28, 2007

Newcomers 2007

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Herald: New features on Web

Continued from Page 18

Get it first," has become a mantra around

the Killeen Daily Herald newsroom.

Other Web sites in the Killeen Daily Her-

ald family include KDHJobs.com, KDHAu-

tos.com, FortHoodRentals.com and Fort-

HoodHomefinder.com.

The Killeen Daily Herald has grown from

a small weekly paper to a metropolitan daily

with a daily circulation of about 20,000 and a

Sunday circulation of about 26,000.

Herald photo

The newspaper was established as a

weekly publication, The Killeen Herald,

This screenshot shows www.kdhpressbox.

in June 1890 by WE. Bennett.

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c o m , which went live in late summer.

J.T. Carter bought the paper in 1903 and

officially join the ranks of daily newspa-

remained publisher for 43 years. Shortly

pers until Sept. 4, 1982, when the format

after selling the Herald, Bennett launched

changed from an afternoon to a morning

a semiweekly newspaper known as the

paper and Saturdays were added.

Killeen Messenger. A year after the Mes-

Mayborn remained at the helm of the

senger was founded, Carter bought the op-

Killeen Daily Herald until his death in 1987.

eration and merged the two newspapers

His wife, Sue Mayborn, who had served

into a semiweekly in 1948.

as executive vice president of Frank May-

The combined paper was called The

born Enterprises Inc. since 1979, assumed

Killeen Daily Herald and Messenger un-

responsibilities as the owner, editor and

til it was converted to a five-day afternoon

publisher of the Killeen Daily Herald and

paper and was renamed the Killeen Daily

the Temple Daily Telegram and as presi-

Herald on Jan. 5, 1953.

dent of KCEN-TV in 1987.

That same year, Frank W Mayborn, a

.

The Herald's vice president and general

communications pioneer, bought the Her-

manager is Terry E. Gandy The managing

.

ald, guiding it through more than 30 years

editor is Marc Gilbert.

of social and technological change.

Subscriptions to the Herald are available

In 1969, the Herald added a Sunday edi-

by calling 501-7400.

tion to its lineup. But the paper wouldn't

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