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North Kitsap Herald
North Kitsap Herald is a newspaper based in Poulsbo in the U.S. state of Washington. It publishes print editions which circulate to about 12,700 readers every Friday. It is owned by Sound Publishing, a subsidiary of Black Press. Sound Publishing is Washington state's most comprehensive community news organization. The newspaper was founded in 1901 and was originally known as the Kitsap County Herald until 1995. According to Sound Publishing, the North Kitsap Herald has won 20 awards from the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association and Local Media Association, of which eight were first place. The publication's mission is "to empower our readers and be a catalyst for change in the communities we serve".

In 1962, the Herald, then owned by former Albany Democrat-Herald editor David Averill, purchased the Bainbridge Island Review and the North Kitsap News from Walter Woodward, who was to remain as editor of the Review, consolidating control of the county's news field. The News was to be discontinued. Woodward had owned the two papers for 22 years. Verda Averill sold the Herald and the Review, as well as the Kitsap Advertiser, to the Black Press in 1988; at the time, Black owned seven U.S. papers and 24 Canadian papers.

In March 2020, Sound Publishing publicly announced that print editions of the North Kitsap Herald among other free Kitsap County newspapers would be temporarily suspended due to lower-than-normal advertising revenue as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to spread. Readers were instead, directed to KitsapDailyNews.com for local.