Washington Times-Herald

For the current newspaper in Washington, Indiana, see Washington Times-Herald (Indiana). For the current newspaper in Washington, D. C. with a similar name, see Washington Times.

The Washington Times-Herald was an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C.. It was created by Cissy Patterson, when she bought the Herald and the Times (not to be confused with the modern Washington Times) from William Randolph Hearst, and merged them. The result was a '24 hour' newspaper, with 10 editions per day, from morning to evening.

In 1917, Hearst had gained control of the Washington Times, a paper established in 1894 which had been owned by Congressman Charles G. Conn, publisher Stilson Hutchins, and most recently Frank Munsey. Hearst merged it with the Washington Herald in 1922 to create the Washington Times-Herald.

Patterson, a member of the Medill-McCormick-Patterson family of newspaper publishers, had been editor of both papers since 1930, and leased them from Hearst in 1937. She had wanted to buy the paper for years. Her chance came at the confluence of Hearst's near-bankruptcy and the purchase attempts by the rival The Washington Post. Patterson ran the merged paper until her death in 1948. It was subsequently purchased by her cousin, Robert R. McCormick (then-publisher and editor of the Chicago Tribune), along with Cissy Patterson's brother Joseph. Both Patterson and McCormick maintained an arch-conservative editorial stance for the paper.

In 1954, the Times-Herald was purchased by, and merged into its more liberal rival, the Post. For a time, the combined paper was officially known as the Washington Post and Times-Herald; the Times-Herald portion of the masthead became less and less prominent in ensuing years, however, and was dropped entirely in 1973.

References

• Roberts, Chalmers McGeagh; The Washington Post: The First 100 Years, Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1977. ISBN 9780395258545