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''The Portsmouth Herald'' (and ''Seacoast Sunday'') is a seven-day daily newspaper serving greater Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Its coverage area also includes the municipalities of Greenland, New Castle, Newington and Rye, New Hampshire; and Eliot, Kittery, Kittery Point and South Berwick, Maine. Unlike most New England daily newspapers, ''The Herald'' circulation grew in the 2000s. Its editors in 2001 credited the newspaper's resurgence with the introduction of the "Wow! factor" -- front-page stories on controversial or sensational topics that appeal to younger readers.〔Nicholson, Joe. "Portsmouth Herald Does Not Take the Traditional Approach to Reporting," ''Brandweek'', April 30, 2001.〕 == Founding == ''The Portsmouth Herald'' considers its foundation date to be September 23, 1884, the day that its predecessor ''The Penny Post'' first appeared in Portsmouth. ''The Penny Post'' (named for its newsstand price) within two years was claiming to have the largest circulation base in New England. The ''Post'' adopted the name ''Portsmouth Herald'' in mid-1897, and cost 2 cents per issue. Traced back through the history of its sister papers, however, the ''Herald'' has an even longer pedigree. In 1891, F.W. Hartford took over ''The Penny Post'' and initiated a newspaper war with two of the city's longest established papers, the ''Morning Chronicle'' (daily since 1852) and the weekly ''New Hampshire Gazette'' (the state's oldest newspaper, established October 7, 1756). He eventually bought out his rivals, and announced on April 5, 1898, that he had taken control of the ''Chronicle'' and ''Gazette''.〔 Hartford continued to publish the ''Morning Chronicle'' as the morning counterpart to the evening ''Herald'' until his death in 1938; he and his son J.D. Hartford kept ''The New Hampshire Gazette'' in print as the weekend edition of the ''Herald'', partially out of pride in being associated with "the nation's oldest newspaper". Even after the ''Herald'' Sunday paper was renamed in the 1960s, the slogan "Continuing the tradition of the ''N.H. Gazette''" continued to appear on the front page.〔 Eventually the ''Herald'' allowed its claim to the ''Gazette'' history fall into disuse, and in 1989, a descendent of the ''Gazette'' 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「The Portsmouth Herald」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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