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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Compact (ex-broadsheet) |
Publisher | Newsquest |
Editor | Richard Porritt |
Founded | 1870 |
Headquarters | Norwich |
Circulation | 11,778(as of 2024) [1] |
Website | edp24 |
The Eastern Daily Press (EDP) is a regional newspaper covering Norfolk, northern parts of Suffolk and eastern Cambridgeshire, and is published daily in Norwich, UK. The paper also produces a sister edition, the Norwich Evening News .
Founded in 1870 as a broadsheet called the Eastern Counties Daily Press, it changed its name to the Eastern Daily Press in 1872. It switched to the compact (tabloid) format in the mid-1990s. The paper is now owned and published by Newsquest. In 2022, Newsquest took over the newspaper's former publisher Archant, formerly known as Eastern Counties Newspapers Group.