Express & Echo
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{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}}
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| type = Weekly newspaper
| format = Tabloid
| owners = Reach plc
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| editor = Scott Harrison{{cite news|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/local-world-appoints-jon-paul-hedge-editor-exeter-express-%26-echo|title=Local World appoints Jon-Paul Hedge as editor of Exeter Express & Echo|date=1 February 2014|first=Darren|last=Boyle|newspaper=Press Gazette|access-date=1 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418033337/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/local-world-appoints-jon-paul-hedge-editor-exeter-express-%26-echo|archive-date=18 April 2014|url-status=dead}}
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| foundation = 1904
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| circulation = 3,309
| circulation_date = 2023
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| website = {{URL|devonlive.com}}
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The Express & Echo is a paid-for newspaper for Exeter, England and the surrounding area.
History
The Express & Echo was established in 1904 as the result of a merger between the Western Echo and the Devon Evening Express, which was founded in 1864.
In 1909 it contained a column titled "Womanland" which dealt with various topics including suffrage protests. It was written by Exeter's first woman councillor (in time) Edith Splatt.{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Colleen |date=2018-02-06 |title=100 years of suffrage - 100 Devon women then and now |url=https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/embargo-tues-feb-6-100-1161011 |access-date=2022-08-09 |website=DevonLive |language=en}} The paper was published on green-tinted newsprint until 1930. It switched from broadsheet to tabloid format in 1979.{{cite web |url=http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/newspaperhistory.html |title=Newspaper History |access-date=2009-11-21 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124094515/http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/newspaperhistory.html |archive-date=24 November 2009 |df=dmy-all }} It was published daily until September 2011, when it became a weekly newspaper.{{cite news|url=http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2011/news/exeter-daily-becomes-latest-northcliffe-title-to-go-weekly/|title=Exeter daily becomes latest Northcliffe title to go weekly|first=Paul|last=Linford|date=5 Aug 2011|work=HoldTheFrontPage}} In 2012, Local World acquired previous owner Northcliffe Media from Daily Mail and General Trust.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20424474 Daily Mail sells regional newspapers to Local World] BBC News, 21 November 2012 Local World was then acquired by Trinity Mirror.
From February 2015 the paper began publishing weekly on Thursdays.
References
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Category:Newspapers published in Devon
Category:Newspapers established in 1904