The paper traces its roots to a paper established as the Torch of Liberty in 1875. After a series of mergers and renamings, it eventually became known as the Wausau Daily Record-Herald in 1907, with the first edition being printed on 2 December of that year. In 1958 it moved into offices on Scott Street in Wausau.[2]
In 2017 Gannett announced the closure of the newspaper's printing plant in Wassau, with production moved to Appleton.[3] In 2018 the Appleton facility was also closed with printing moved to a facility in West Milwaukee.[4] In August 2021 the sale of the Daily Herald's Scott Street offices in Wausau was announced by Gannett.[2]
Recognition
The Wausau Daily Herald was a 1985 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for "a special section on Wausau's growing Indochinese refugee population, the Hmong" by Pam Sprague and Rob Orcutt.[5]