Herald-Mail Media is a newspaper and communications company owned by Schurz Communications, a family-owner, multi-media company based in South Bend/Mishawaka, Indiana.

Founded: The Morning Herald was the first daily newspaper in Hagerstown, beginning publication in 1873. The Mail converted to daily in 1890. The two newspapers merged in 1920 and were purchased by Schurz Communications in 1960. The Daily Mail, published in the afternoon, and The Morning Herald were merged into one morning paper, The Herald-Mail, in October 2007. The Herald-Mail newspaper is published daily Monday through Sunday.

Herald Mail Media has an array of daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly publications, websites and social media platforms that bring news and information to the community covering Washington County, MD, parts of Franklin County, PA, and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.

Circulation Area: Hagerstown is located in Western Maryland. About 20% of our newspaper readership is in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The newspaper is distributed in all three states, with the most circulation in Maryland.