The Times Herald-Record and recordonline.com is Middletown and the mid-Hudson Valley’s hub for community news, from breaking news and food & drink to local sports and investigative journalism.
Our team of locally-based reporters and editors cares about the needs of our readers, our advertisers, our employees and the people of our community. We recognize that we achieve our greatest success by producing quality news products and by helping to make our community a better place.
News is published regularly online every day, in our daily eNewspaper and in print six days a week. The biggest stories of the day can be found in our Daily Briefing newsletter, which readers can subscribe to here.
When was the Times Herald-Record founded?
Unbroken newspaper service in Middletown began with The Whig Press in 1851, and the Times Herald-Record was born out of the 1960 merger of the Times Herald and the Middletown Daily Record.
The Times Herald-Record serves readers in Orange, Sullivan and Ulster counties in New York.
Our website, recordonline.com, together with our digital mobile and tablet platforms, provides breaking news, photos, videos and other content not appearing in the print newspaper.
Who owns the Times Herald-Record?
Gannett Co. Inc (NYSE: GCI) is the Times Herald-Record’s parent company, operating a national flagship media brand, USA TODAY, and hundreds of media brands throughout the United States under the USA TODAY Network umbrella. It is one of the largest publishing and digital media companies in the nation.
How to connect with the Times Herald-Record
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Who leads the Times Herald-Record?
Katie Borrelli is the Local Editor. Reach her by email here.
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Journalism principles guiding the Times-Herald Record
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Awards won by the Times Herald-Record
Reporter Chris McKenna received the first place Business Writing award in the 2022 Journalists Association of New York Awards competition, Division I, for his story on the transformation of the Mid-Orange Correctional Facility.
Other recent accolades won by The Times Herald-Record include the 2021 and 2020 awards for Distinguished Headline Writing in the New York News Publishers Association contest in its respective circulation category. The three 2020 cover story headlines included “READ MY LIPS, Making life a bit less stressful for special needs communities” for a story about a local mask maker who designed face masks with clear inserts; “POMP AND DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES, Graduation 2020 twist: home delivery” for a story about how the COVID-19 pandemic changed high school graduations; and “DINO-MIGHT? Theme park plan features an educational twist” for a story about a proposed Dinosaur theme park for town of Wallkill.
Where is the Times Herald-Record printed?
The Times Herald-Record’s print edition is produced in Rockaway, New Jersey. Its reporters live and work in the Middletown, New York area, although we receive support from journalists across the country as part of the USA TODAY Network.
This article originally appeared on Times Herald-Record: About the Times Herald-Record in Middletown, Orange County
