The Herald-Journal traces its beginnings to 1842 when The Spartanburg Journal was established as a publishing company by Asa J. Muir. The company was in existence for about a year. Muir published The Spartanburgh Journal every Saturday. The final "h" eventually disappeared from the city's and the newspaper's name.

The Spartanburg Herald purchased the Journal and the Carolina Spartan in 1914 and the Journal became the afternoon paper. Charles E. Marsh of Texas bought the newspapers and in 1947 donated them to the Public Welfare Foundation, which he had founded.

The Spartanburg Herald merged with The Spartanburg Journal and became The Spartanburg Herald-Journal on October 1, 1982. The Herald-Journal was acquired in 1985 by the New York Times Co., and is a member of the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group.

Herald-Journal Online began July 10, 1995 as an outgrowth of the paper's ongoing coverage of the Susan Smith trial in Union, S.C.

For more information about the Herald-Journal, please contact the appropriate person or department at the following address or phone number:

          The Herald-Journal
          P.O. Box 1657
          Spartanburg, SC 29304
          803-582-4511

For e-mail addresses of individual staff members involved in Herald-Journal Online, please see the staff page.

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