Omaha World-Herald

Omaha World-Herald
Omaha World-Herald front page
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Lee Enterprises
FoundedAugust 24, 1885; 139 years ago (1885-08-24)
Headquarters
CountryUnited States
Circulation58,514 Daily
63,319 Sunday (as of 2023)[1]
ISSN2641-9653
OCLC number1585533
Websiteomaha.com

The Omaha World-Herald is a daily newspaper in the midwestern United States, the primary newspaper of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area.

It was locally owned from its founding in 1885 until 2020, when it was sold to the newspaper chain Lee Enterprises by its most recent local owner, Warren Buffett, chairman of Omaha-based Berkshire Hathaway.

For more than a century it circulated daily throughout Nebraska — a state that is 430 miles long. It also circulated daily throughout all of Iowa, and in parts of Kansas, South Dakota, Missouri, Colorado, and Wyoming. It retrenched during the financial crisis of 2008, ending far-flung circulation[2] and restricting daily delivery to an area in Nebraska and Iowa within an approximately 100-mile radius of Omaha.

  1. ^ Lee Enterprises. "Form 10-K". investors.lee.net. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  2. ^ "Omaha World-Herald changes western Nebraska delivery". starherald.com. 30 December 2008. Retrieved 2021-06-12.