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The Washington Herald

A Paper of Quality
December 25, 1922 edition
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owners	1906 – Scott Cordelle Bone 1913 – Clinton T. Brainard 1922 – William Randolph Hearst
Founder	Scott Cordelle Bone
Editor	1906 – William P. Spargeon 1922 – Eleanor Medill "Cissy" Patterson
Founded	October 8, 1906 (1906-10-08)
Ceased publication	1939
Language	English
Headquarters	734 Fifteenth Street
Country	United States
Circulation	Peak circulation of 50,000
ISSN	1941-0662
OCLC number	9470809
Media of the United States List of newspapers

The Washington Herald was an American daily newspaper in Washington, D.C., from October 8, 1906, to January 31, 1939.

The paper was founded in 1906 by Scott C. Bone, who had been managing editor of The Washington Post from 1888 until that paper was taken over by John Roll McLean in 1905.

Clinton T. Brainard, president of the McClure Newspaper Syndicate, bought the paper in 1913. William Randolph Hearst, who already owned the Washington Times, took over the paper in November 1922.^[1][2] Though he consolidated the operations of the papers, they still published separately except for a joint Sunday edition.

Cissy Patterson was appointed editor by Hearst in 1930.^[3]

The Herald was merged with the Times on February 1, 1939, with the combined publication known as the Washington Times-Herald. In 1954, the Times-Herald was purchased by and merged with The Washington Post.

The Washington Herald appears as a fictional newspaper in the 1993 film The Pelican Brief, in The X Files (3x15) 1996, the 1996 film Eraser, and in the 2013 political drama series House of Cards.^[4] It is used in John Feinstein's book series featuring child reporters, including Last Shot, Vanishing Act, and Cover Up.