Newbury Weekly News

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The Newbury Weekly News
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Type Weekly newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s)Newbury News and Media Limited
EditorAndy Murrill
Founded1867
HeadquartersNewspaper House
Faraday Road
Newbury
Berkshire
RG14 2DW
Circulation 6,824(as of 2022) [1]
ISSN 0961-9739
OCLC number 500150445
Website www.newburytoday.co.uk

The Newbury Weekly News is an English local weekly newspaper, covering Newbury and West Berkshire. The paper's website is known as Newbury Today. [2] It is published by the Newbury Weekly News Group.

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History

The British Army in Italy 1943: Men of the 2/6th Queen's Regiment read the Newbury Weekly News in their jeep, 29 September 1943. The British Army in Italy 1943 NA7447.jpg
The British Army in Italy 1943: Men of the 2/6th Queen's Regiment read the Newbury Weekly News in their jeep, 29 September 1943.

The newspaper was first published in 1867 by Walter Blacket and Thomas Wheildon Turner. [3] It has been independently and family-owned since its establishment, [3] with Blacket Turner & Co being formed in the 1980s. [4]

The paper celebrated its 150th anniversary in February 2017 with a special edition including a reprint of the first Newbury Weekly News newspaper. [5] [6]

On 1 May 2019, the paper was sold to Iliffe Media Group.[ citation needed ]

Circulation

The newspaper's catchment covers an area of 300 square miles (780 km2) and a population of around 150,000. [4] In the company's certificate of circulation (circulation published in February 2016 by the Audit Bureau of Circulations), the average circulation per issue was 13,810. [7]

Awards

In 2006, the newspaper won The Newspaper Society's Best Paid-For Weekly Newspaper award. The newspaper's website was voted Best Website Produced by a Weekly Newspaper. [8]

In 2007, Newbury Today was named the Picture Editors’ Newspaper Website of the Year, an award it shared with The Sun. [9]

In 2019, Newbury Weekly News won the Society of Editor’s Regional Press Awards Best paid for weekly newspaper (circulation above 10000) category. [10] A NWN photographer was also shortlisted for the Weekly Photographer of the Year at the event.

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References

  1. "Newbury Weekly News". Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK). 21 February 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  2. "About Newbury Today". Newbury Today. Newbury Weekly News. 2008. Archived from the original on 15 March 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
  3. 1 2 "Newbury Weekly News". British Newspapers Online. British Expat Magazine. 12 February 2009. Archived from the original on 29 May 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
  4. 1 2 "About Newbury Weekly News". Newbury Today. Newbury Weekly News. 2008. Archived from the original on 7 March 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
  5. "Newbury Weekly News 150 today". Newbury Weekly News. 7 February 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  6. "Newbury Weekly News 150th week". Newbury Weekly News. 22 February 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  7. "Circulation - July to December 2015". Regional Publications. PressGazette. February 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  8. "Family-owned news firm marks 140 years". Regional press news. Hold the Front Page. 1 February 2007. Archived from the original on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
  9. "Picture Editors' Awards 2007 Press Release". City of London website. City of London Website. 21 June 2007. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
  10. "Regional Press Awards". Society of Editors. 17 May 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2020.