Sun Herald

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.