Kilgore News Herald

The Kilgore News Herald (KNH) also known as the Kilgore Daily News is an American daily newspaper based in city of Kilgore

Kilgore News Herald

The Kilgore News Herald print edition on March 3rd, 1957
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Carpenter Media Group[1]
Publisher	Alexander Gould
Editor	Meredith Shamburger
Founded	1930; 95 years ago (1930)
Headquarters	1211 Kilgore Drive, Suite A Henderson, Texas 75652[2]
Country	United States
Circulation	1,077a (print) (as of 2023)[3]
OCLC number	14369436
Website	kilgorenewsherald.com
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History

The newspaper was established in 1930 as the Kilgore Daily News during the peak of the East Texas oil boom, which transformed Kilgore from a town of 800 to over 10,000 residents within months.^[4] Early editions emphasized oil-industry news with mottos like "Capital of the World's Greatest Oil Field."^[5]

In 1935, it merged with the Kilgore Herald to form the Kilgore News Herald.^[6] The Devall family owned the paper from 1940 to 1979, during which it operated as a daily broadsheet with peak circulation exceeding 5,000 copies.^[7]

Established in 1930. Lyde Williford Devall and Charles K. Devall owned and published the Kilgore News Herald from 1940 to 1979.^[8] In 2018, Bluebonnet Publishing sold the newspaper to M. Roberts Media,^[9][10] as part of a strategic move to enhance local news coverage and facilitate a transition into a digitally integrated noting the newspaper's "historic roots stretching back to the early days of the East Texas oil boom," highlighting its longstanding role and its important history.^[11] then was acquired by Carpenter Media Group in 2024.^[12]

Content

Clyde Barrow's 1934 Arrest and Local Connections

• On February 6, 1934, the Kilgore News Herald reported Goss and Dallas detective Will Fritz had arrested and captured Clyde Barrow months earlier.^[13]
• That same edition featured the headline "BARROW, BONNIE SEEN IN E. TEX." - indicating their continued presence months before their deaths.^[13]
• Former Kilgore News Herald Reporter Bob Cone described Barrow as an "elusive, even phantom-like desperado," quoting Goss's assessment:

  "Barrow is bad. Barrow is bold... He's much more desperate today than when launching his career of crime." - Police Chief Bob Goss (Texas Ranger)^[13]

Notes

^a Print circulation only; digital subscription data not publicly reported.

See also

• List of newspapers in Texas