The El Paso Herald-Post was an afternoon daily newspaper in El Paso, Texas

El Paso, Texas

El Paso, is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States, and lies in far West Texas. In the 2010 census, the city had a population of 649,121. It is the sixth largest city in Texas and the 19th largest city in the United States...

, USA. It was the successor to the El Paso Herald, first published in 1881, and the El Paso Post, founded by the E. W. Scripps Company

E. W. Scripps Company

The E. W. Scripps Company is an American media conglomerate founded by Edward W. Scripps on November 2, 1878. The company is headquartered inside the Scripps Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Its corporate motto is "Give light and the people will find their own way."On October 16, 2007, the company...

 in 1922. The papers merged in 1931 under Scripps ownership.

The Herald-Post was nominated for two Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

s in 1987 for a story about a Mexican drug lord and for its literacy campaign. When the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain shut the paper down in 1997, it cited its substantial decline in circulation.

External links

• "Texas' largest afternoon daily newspaper publishes final edition", Associated Press
  Associated Press
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  , October 11, 1997
• "El Paso Herald" hosted by the Portal to Texas History.