The Newbury Weekly News
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Newbury News and Media Limited
EditorAndy Murrill
Founded1867
HeadquartersNewspaper House
Faraday Road
Newbury
Berkshire
RG14 2DW
Circulation6,824 (as of 2022)[1]
ISSN0961-9739
OCLC number500150445
Websitewww.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.

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 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.

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.

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.


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