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''The Minden Press-Herald'' is a Monday-Friday daily newspaper published in Minden, the parish seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, by Specht Newspapers, Inc. It serves the Minden and Webster Parish circulation area with mostly local news. The first newspaper by this name in Minden was founded in 1895. The newspaper has evolved through many manifestations. In 1989, the Louisiana Press Association presented ''The Press-Herald'' with the annual "Freedom of Information Award" for its work the previous year in maintaining public access to city meetings and records. ==Original ''Minden Herald''== The earliest use of the name ''Minden Herald'' dates to 1895, after publisher/printer/editor William Jasper Blackburn, an Arkansas native, settled in Minden, then a part of Claiborne Parish, and established the newspaper. He was a Democrat, a supporter of the Union, and opposed slavery. He was mayor of Minden for a single one-year term from May 1855 to May 1856. Blackburn published his ''Minden Herald'' for about six years. It was not the first newspaper in Minden. That distinction was held by the former ''Minden Iris'', which was established in 1848 at the same time as the founding of neighboring Bienville Parish.〔John Agan, "Minden Press-Herald story goes back more than 150 years", ''Minden Press-Herald'', 2007〕 The Minden political climate shifted to favor the Know Nothing Party, which repudiated "non-native" ideas, and Blackburn moved to Homer, where he founded the ''Homer Iliad'' newspaper. During the American Civil War, Blackburn published in opposition to the Confederate States of America. Tried in Confederate District Court in Shreveport, Blackburn escaped conviction by a single vote on charges of having produced counterfeit Confederate currency. Had the conviction verdict been unanimous, he would have been hanged.〔 Blackburn remained in Homer during the Reconstruction era. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Republican, serving from 1868 to 1869. Thereafter, he served as a member of the Louisiana State Senate until he was defeated in 1878 by A Democrat of the emerging Redeemer government. Blackburn relocated to Little Rock, where he published the ''Arkansas Republican''.〔(BLACKBURN, William Jasper - Biographical Information )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Minden Press-Herald」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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