[1] Previously it published as a weekly newspaper, also called the Herald, covering the villages of Fairfield and Osborn, Ohio,[1] which merged in 1950 to become Fairborn.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Fairborn Daily Herald and its sister publication, the Beavercreek Daily News (both owned by the Times company, publisher of the Kettering-Oakwood Times) shared a news room and were published from headquarters in northern Fairborn.
[2] Brown purchased the Greene County papers from The Thomson Corporation, a Canadian publisher, in 1998.
[3] Brown, a Cincinnati-based family business, declared bankruptcy and was reconstituted as Ohio Community Media in 2010.
[4] The company, including the Fairborn Daily Herald, was purchased for an undisclosed sum in 2011 by Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Management.