The Herald had its origins in two early newspapers, The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News and The Miners Advocate and Northumberland Recorder.
Total circulation for the UK's paid for regional newspapers fell by 6.4 per cent year on year on the second half of 2012.

In October 2013, the Chronicle and its sister publications The Journal and Sunday Sun were banned from Newcastle United F.C. It cost just sixpence. Newcastle Chronicle Ltd How a Major Newspaper was produced in the 1930s.

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due to the papers' coverage of a fans' protest march.
The Chronicle in Newcastle has moved into new “state-of-the-art” offices after half a century in its historical Thomson House home. Newcastle Chronicle: Trinity Mirror Regional: August 2015: View Newcastle Chronicle: Trinity Mirror Regional: July 2015: View Newcastle Chronicle: Trinity Mirror Regional: June 2015: View Newcastle Chronicle: Trinity Mirror Regional: May 2015: View Newcastle Chronicle… Part 1 - 'Introduction' and 'The Front Office'. Owned by Reach plc, the Chronicle is the sister publication of another North East newspaper The Journal. Inspiring market confidence by delivering a valued stamp of trust across the media world Owned by the media industry, ABC independently verifies and reports on media performance. In the years that followed it took on more of the appearance of a newspaper, became a bi … The ban was later withdrawn. Established in 1858, the Chronicle began as a weekly journal carrying mining, shipping, court and some small items of local news.