Portland Press Herald
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The Portland Press Herald is a daily newspaper serving Portland, the state's largest and most commercially important city, as well as the majority of Southern Maine.
The newspaper, founded in 1862 on Congress Street, is the largest in the state in terms of both circulation and reporting staff. To this day, its offices remain on the corner of Congress and Exchange Streets, near the Old Port section of the city. The Press Herald, owned by The Seattle Times and the Blethen family, is under the same private ownership as the Central Maine Morning Sentinel and the Kennebec Journal. On Sundays, the Press Herald becomes The Maine Sunday Telegram, and is distributed statewide. The paper, like many of its counterparts, is sometimes thought by conservatives to have a liberal bias, but its pages include a range of viewpoints.
The Press Herald has bureaus in Augusta, Bath, Biddeford, Brunswick, Saco, Sanford, and Yarmouth. The Press Herald's website is produced by MaineToday.