page_title: Omaha World-Herald
section_title: Operations
hierarchical_section_title: Omaha World-Herald / Operations
caption_attribution_description: English: Freedom Center, Omaha
context_page_description: The Omaha World-Herald is the primary newspaper serving the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. It is based in Omaha, Nebraska. For decades it circulated daily throughout Nebraska and Iowa and in parts of Kansas, South Dakota, Missouri, Colorado, and Wyoming. In 2008, distribution was reduced to the eastern third of Nebraska and western Iowa. In 2011, Omaha native Warren Buffett purchased the paper via his holdings company Berkshire Hathaway. In 2020, BH Media Group and the World-Herald were purchased by Lee Enterprises.
context_section_description: The World-Herald was the largest employee-owned newspaper in the United States. On November 30, 2011, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway announced plans to buy the newspaper.
  The World-Herald had for many years been the newspaper with the highest penetration rate – the percentage of people who subscribe to the publication within the paper's home circulation area – in the United States.
  The Omaha World-Herald also operates the website Omaha.com, the region's most popular website by all measures of traffic. 
  The company dubs its downtown Omaha production center the John Gottschalk Freedom Center. The Freedom Center also houses its three printing presses, which can each print 75,000 papers per hour, and are considered to be some of the most advanced in the world.  In 2006, the company purchased the 16-story former Northwestern Bell/Qwest Communications building in downtown Omaha as a new base for its news, editorial, circulation and business operations.
caption: The John Gottschalk Freedom Center in Omaha, Nebraska
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