The Ethiopian Herald is a government-owned English-language newspaper published by the Ethiopian Press Agency, which also publishes the Amharic-language Addis Zemen.

It was launched as a weekly on 3 July 1943.^[2] Jan Hoy Simpson, an Englishman, was its first editor. Later editors were from the United States. The first Ethiopian editor was Ato Yacob Wolde Mariam in 1960.^[3][4] It became a daily at the end of 1958, as did Addis Zemen.^[2]

The Ethiopian Herald is owned by the Ethiopian Press Agency, a public media enterprise operating in Ethiopia, which was established in 1940. It is the sole publisher of the only daily Amharic-language newspaper known as Addis Zemen. The enterprise also publishes The Ethiopian Herald, a daily newspaper except on Mondays in the English language. Among its tabloids are the weeklies: Berissa in the local Oromo language and Al-Alem in the international Arabic languages. The agency has yet another bi-monthly magazine, known as Zemen in Amharic. With a current staff of more than 300, the Ethiopian Press Agency runs its own business affairs through own-generated incomes.