The Daily Siftings Herald

The Daily Siftings Herald was a daily newspaper serving Arkadelphia in southern Arkansas, United States. It was owned by Donrey Media from 1986 to 1999, when it sold the paper to newspaper investor Rupert Phillips' Better Built Media Group.[1][2] In 2004, Better Built sold several papers to HarborPoint Media, a company backed by the private equity firm Sandler Capital Management.[3] Liberty Group Publishing (now GateHouse Media) the paper's last owners, acquired several papers from Better Built in 2005.[4]The Daily Siftings Herald was closed on September 15, 2018, due to declining subscribers and increasing operational costs.[5]

The Daily Siftings Herald
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)GateHouse Media
PublisherTeresa Hicks
EditorJamal Brown
Ceased publicationSeptember 15, 2018
Headquarters205 South 26th Street, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, United States
Websitewww.siftingsherald.com

Early in his career as a journalist and advertising executive, Arkansas State Representative Andy Mayberry was a sports editor for The Daily Siftings Herald.[6]

References
  1. Roberts, Gene; Kunkel, Thomas; Layton, Charles, eds. (2001). Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1610752325.
  2. Sold on the Siftings
  3. HarborPoint Media Announces Acquisition of Better Built Group Newspaper Assets
  4. 4th Quarter 2005
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20180914192530/http://www.siftingsherald.com/news/20180913/regional-vice-president-chimes-in-on-closure
  6. "Mayberry Bio". andymayberry.com. Retrieved December 12, 2013.


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