See also: List of newspapers in New York.
| Wantagh Herald | |
| Type: | Weekly newspaper |
| Format: | Tabloid, Digital |
| Language: | American English |
| Foundation: | 1949 (as Southeaster) |
| Owners: | Richner Communications |
| Publisher: | Clifford and Stuart Richner |
| Editor: | None |
| Circulation: | 2,952 |
| Circulation Date: | 2018 |
| Headquarters: | 2 Endo Boulevard Garden City, Nassau County, New York 11530 |
| Publishing Country: | United States |
| Publishing City: | Garden City |
| Oclc: | 883786393 |
| Sister Newspapers: | Long Island Herald newspaper chain, Nassau Herald, The Jewish Star, Oyster Bay Guardian, The Riverdale Press |
| Issn: | 2469-813X |
The Wantagh Herald is an American weekly newspaper that serves Garden City, Wantagh, and Seaford in Nassau County, New York.[1] It is published on Thursdays with a circulation of 3,081 as of 2018.[2] /ref>
It is considered a paper of public record by Nassau County clerk's office.[3]
The Wantagh Herald Citizen was founded as the Southeaster in 1949 and became the Wantagh Seaford Citizen in 1953.[4] The paper was split in two and changed in 2014 to the Wantagh Herald Citizenand Seaford Herald Citizen. In 2021, they both became the Wantagh Herald and Seaford Herald.[5]
G.L. Bricker, an early editor of the Southeaster paper in Wantagh, was sued for a million dollars for libel by the New York Communist Party.[6]
In 1958, Faith and Johannes Laursen purchased the paper, along with Merrick Life, Bellmore Life, and the Freeport-Baldwin Leader. Johannes Laursen was briefly the head of the New York Press Association.[7] [8] The four papers together comprised L&M Publications, which was later run by the Laursen's children, Linda Toscano and Paul Laursen.[9]
L&M Publications was acquired in 2013 by Richner Communications, and the Wantagh Seaford Citizen was added to Richner's newspaper group, Herald Community Newspapers. It was split into two newspapers; the Wantagh Herald Citizen and Seaford Herald Citizen. In 2021, both papers dropped the Citizen from their title, and are now the Wantagh Herald and Seaford Herald.[10]
Herald Community Papers received 2nd place in the New York Press Association's 2017 Better Newspapers Contest, in the category of Group or Chain Newspapers.[11] The Wantagh Herald Citizen also received 2nd place in that 2017 contest for Best Small Space Ad.