From the editor: The Sun Herald is moving offices to better serve South Mississippi
The Sun Herald is moving into new offices in downtown Gulfport that are a great fit for our modern news operation.
We’ll be in the Hewes building in downtown Gulfport, where our news and business staff has fallen in love with views of the waterfront and other historic buildings lining the streets.
We hated to say goodbye to our old building, which served us so well in another time. We finished moving out this week.
The Sun Herald was a fixture on DeBuys Road for almost 50 years. The sturdy concrete building was constructed after Hurricane Camille. We sheltered there during subsequent storms and brought you all the momentous news of the Coast during these past decades.
In this building, we brought you Pulitzer-prize winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina and so many more big stories
More than 1,000 employees have passed through that building over the years. We need far less space now. The building and surrounding acreage have been up for sale for several years. The property is still available.
It will be more cost-efficient to move to smaller quarters where we can save on utilities and upkeep.
Our new office is on the fourth floor at 2505 14th St. in Gulfport. Keesler Federal Credit Union is on the first floor of the new place, and we’re directly across the street from the iconic Hancock-Whitney Building.
We look forward to bringing you the same breaking and in-depth news coverage we have provided since the company’s founding.
We will be able to do that only with your continued support. If you don’t have one already, please consider a subscription. Print subscriptions also entitle you to digital access. We also offer digital-only subscriptions.
Subscribers are more important than ever to our continued operation as many advertisers have moved from print to online, where the competition is much stronger and the prices lower.
If you still visit the Sun Herald building to pay your bill or ask a subscription question, you are welcome to come to the new place during business hours after coronavirus restrictions end. But all those services are available by phone, 800-346-2472, or visit Subscription Self-Service online, and that’s really the best way for you to get quick results.
I am proud to be the first executive editor in the new Sun Herald office and look forward to serving our community for many more years to come, as does the staff.
This story was originally published April 17, 2020 at 4:27 PM.