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The smaller of the two main newspapers in Massachusetts' South Coast, ''The Herald News'' is a daily newspaper based in Fall River, Massachusetts. Its coverage area includes Fall River and the nearby towns of Dighton, Freetown, Somerset, Swansea and Westport, Massachusetts; and Little Compton and Tiverton, Rhode Island.〔Audit Bureau of Circulations. "Reader Profile Report: The Herald News," March 2006〕 ''The Herald News'', formerly owned by Journal Register Company, was sold in December 2006 to GateHouse Media, which owns several daily and weekly newspapers in Massachusetts.〔Gavin, Robert. "GateHouse Buys More Mass. Papers." ''The Boston Globe'', December 2, 2006.〕 == Sisters and competitors == ''The Herald News'' Before the GateHouse sale, ''The Herald News'' was part of Journal Register's New England group, which included the ''The Call'' in Woonsocket, ''Kent County Daily Times'' and ''The Times'' of Pawtucket, all in Rhode Island. The Rhode Island newspapers were not included in the sale.〔Rowland, Christopher. "Chain Aims to Sell Papers in Region." ''The Boston Globe'', August 29, 2006.〕 Also associated with ''The Herald News'', and included in the $70 million GateHouse sale, are ''O Jornal'' (a Portuguese-language weekly) and ''El Latino Expreso'' (a Spanish-language weekly), catering to the substantial immigrant population of the South Coast, and the ''Free-Press'' of North Attleborough, Massachusetts.〔 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 Herald News」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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