Oxford Mail

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Oxford Mail
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Type Daily newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Newsquest
EditorAndrew Colley
Founded1928
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersNewspaper House, Osney Mead, Oxford
Circulation 4,115(as of 2023) [1]
Website www.oxfordmail.co.uk

Oxford Mail is a daily tabloid newspaper in Oxford, England, owned by Newsquest. It is published six days a week. It is a sister paper to the weekly tabloid The Oxford Times .

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History

The Oxford Mail was founded in 1928 as a successor to Jackson's Oxford Journal.

From 1961 until 1979 its editor was Mark Barrington-Ward. [2] At that time it was owned by the Westminster Press, and was an evening newspaper. [2]

The Oxford Mail is now published in the morning. In the second half of 2008 its circulation fell to 23,402, [3] by 2013 it had fallen to 16,569, a year-on-year decline of 5.6% [4] By the second half of 2014, its circulation had fallen to 12,103. [5]

In the period July to December 2015, the paper's circulation fell again, to 11,173. [6] In January to June 2016, a further decline to 10,777 was recorded, an 8.4% fall in year-on-year. [7]

The latest published circulation was 5,504 (January – June 2022). [8]

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