Editor & Publisher Magazine, which has covered the news industry since 1884, has named the Bucks County Herald to its 2023 list of “10 News Publishers That Do It Right.”
E&P unveiled the list Friday afternoon in a post on its website — www.editorandpublisher.com.
Authored by E&P Editor-In-Chief Robin Blinder, the post celebrated the Herald’s successful transition to a nonprofit journalism model, lauded its 20% print and digital growth performance in both 2021 and 2022, and credited its staff of 21 full- and part-time employees and team of freelance writers and photographers for producing “a beloved, award-winning community printed paper with the highest readership in the region.”
“It’s an honor to be recognized as one of the best in our industry,” said Herald publisher Joseph G. Wingert. “We have a great team and, needless to say, the support of our advertisers and readers has enabled us to stay true to our mission as a local community news organization.”
Owned and operated by the Wingert family for two decades, the Thursday-published weekly newspaper is now a holding of the Bucks County Herald Foundation along with specialty publications, as well as the Herald’s seasonal arts and entertainment guides.
“From a modest beginning, the Herald has become the go-to source for news and events of Bucks County communities,” said founding editor Bridget Wingert, who now serves as president of the Bucks County Herald Foundation. “It’s a local publication, produced by local people, and focusing on local people, but it’s more than that — in many ways it reflects the county’s relation to regional and national arenas. Readers say over and over again, ‘I love the Herald.’”
The E&P’s list includes notables like the Pulitzer Prize-winning Georges Media Group, publisher of “The Times-Picayunne” in New Orleans; Hearst Connecticut Media Group, which publishes the “New Haven Register” and the “Connecticut Post”; the “Las Vegas Review-Journal”; and “The Post and Courier” in South Carolina.
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