Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Format | Tabloid |
Owner(s) | Newbury News and Media Limited |
Editor | Andy Murrill |
Founded | 1867 |
Headquarters | Newspaper 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.
The Newbury Weekly News featured in a short Central Office of Information film in 1952, titled "Local Newspaper".
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 ]
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]
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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