| Moorefield Examiner | |
| Type: | twice-weekly |
| Format: | Broadsheet |
| Foundation: | 1874[1] |
| Owners: | R.E. Risher Co. Inc. |
| Publisher: | Mr. and Mrs. David O. Heishman |
| Editor: | Phoebe F. Heishman |
| Circulation: | 3,818[2] |
| Headquarters: | 132 S Main St, Moorefield, Hardy County, WV 26836 |
| Oclc: | 9921953 |
| Issn: | 0740-2651 |
The Moorefield Examiner is an American weekly newspaper serving Hardy County, West Virginia.[3] It is owned by R.E. Risher Co. Inc. and has a circulation of 3,818.[4]
While claiming antecedents dating back to 1845,[5] the Examiner itself was founded in 1874 by Samuel D. Gordon.[6] It quickly became the leading democratic newspaper in the South Branch Valley, and was in those early years the only newspaper published in Hardy county.[7]
Sam McCoy's son-in-law, Ralph E. Fisher, took over the paper in 1935 after Sam's death,[8] [9] with Sam's wife Eunice as co-publisher.[10] For five years it was run as a co-op while Fisher was on active duty in the Navy. Fisher died of a heart attack, at age 62, in 1968. Since that time the paper has been run by his daughter. Phoebe F. Heishman, her husband David, and their son James.[11] The paper's website claims the newspaper is Hardy County's only locally owned and operated newspaper.