Michael Distelhorst is new publisher at Klamath Falls (OR) Herald and News

Posted Sunday, January 15, 2023 6:49 pm

Molly O’Brien | Herald & News

As the Herald & News bid 2022 farewell and greeted the new year, the staff met its new publisher and said goodbye to the long-standing head of the newspaper.

Michael Distelhorst is the new publisher of the Herald & News (Klamath Falls, Oregon), replacing Mark Dobie.

Since 2014, Dobie served as the publisher of the Herald & News, and, later, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle in Montana as well. Dobie moved to Montana in 2017, making frequent trips to the Klamath Basin.

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