Gloucestershire Live
{{Short description|Weekly newspaper in England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Gloucestershire Live/Echo
| type = Weekly newspaper
| publisher = Gloucestershire Media
| owners = Reach plc
| headquarters = Gloucester, England
| website = {{URL|gloucestershirelive.co.uk|GloucestershireLive}}
| circulation = 2,927
| circulation_date = 2023
| circulation_ref = {{cite web|url=https://www.abc.org.uk/product/2728 |title= Gloucestershire Echo |publisher=Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK) |date=5 February 2024 |access-date=2 March 2024}}
}}
Gloucestershire Echo is a local weekly newspaper based in Gloucester, England. Published every Thursday, it covers the areas of Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, Moreton-in-Marsh, Northleach, Stow-on-the-Wold and Tewkesbury.{{Cite web|title=Gloucestershire Echo|url=https://local.reachsolutions.co.uk/brands/gloucestershire-echo/|access-date=2020-07-09|website=Reach Solutions|language=en-GB|archive-date=2020-08-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821111453/https://local.reachsolutions.co.uk/brands/gloucestershire-echo/|url-status=live}} The newspaper is headquartered at Gloucester Quays.{{cite news|date=31 August 2010|title=The Gloucestershire Echo is moving from Clarence Parade to a new HQ|journal=Gloucestershire Echo|url=http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/news/Echo-new-HQStaff-photograph-taken-outside-St-James-House-Cheltenham-Gloucestershire-Media-s-HQ-moving-September-Pic-James-Douglas-27-08-10-Echo-News/article-2584860-detail/article.html|url-status=dead|access-date=5 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100905002406/http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/news/Echo-new-HQStaff-photograph-taken-outside-St-James-House-Cheltenham-Gloucestershire-Media-s-HQ-moving-September-Pic-James-Douglas-27-08-10-Echo-News/article-2584860-detail/article.html|archive-date=5 September 2010|df=dmy-all}}
Its digital counterpart is called 'Gloucestershire Live'.
History
In 2012, Local World acquired owner Northcliffe Media from Daily Mail and General Trust.{{cite news|date=21 November 2012|title=Daily Mail sells regional newspapers to Local World|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20424474|access-date=5 May 2018|archive-date=17 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180117030228/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20424474|url-status=live}} The newspaper is now owned by Reach plc, publisher of the Daily Express and Daily Mirror national newspapers.
Until it went weekly with its 12 October 2017 issue, the Gloucestershire Echo was a six-day-a-week daily newspaper produced by Gloucestershire Media, part of Reach plc.{{Cite web|last=Live|first=Gloucestershire|date=2017-09-12|title=Citizen and Echo newspapers to go weekly|url=http://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-citizen-gloucestershire-echo-newspapers-462177|access-date=2020-07-09|website=gloucestershirelive|archive-date=2020-07-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711214525/https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-citizen-gloucestershire-echo-newspapers-462177|url-status=live}}
Editor Rachael Sugden was appointed in October 2017 as the paper went weekly. She supplanted Matt Holmes, who had been in position since January 2015.{{cite news|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/bristol-evening-posts-blackadder-is-made-editor-of-the-gloucestershire-echo/|title=Bristol Evening Post's Blackadder is made editor of the Gloucestershire Echo|work=Press Gazette|date=10 June 2008|access-date=5 May 2018|archive-date=6 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180506035058/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/bristol-evening-posts-blackadder-is-made-editor-of-the-gloucestershire-echo/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/news/Whitehaven-man-made-editor-of-Gloucester-paper-d6a3b6a4-3ba3-454c-8dfe-5fa36dd3a8df-ds|title=Whitehaven man made editor of Gloucester paper|work=Whitehaven News|date=11 June 2008|access-date=5 May 2018|archive-date=6 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180506035205/http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/news/Whitehaven-man-made-editor-of-Gloucester-paper-d6a3b6a4-3ba3-454c-8dfe-5fa36dd3a8df-ds|url-status=live}}
See also
- The Citizen, a sister paper for the Gloucester area.
References and sources
;References
{{Reflist}}
;Sources
- Ian Jackson, "The provincial press and the community", Manchester University Press, 1971, {{ISBN|0-7190-0460-8}}, p. 31
External links
- [http://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/ Gloucestershire Echo]
- {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/*/http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/|title=Gloucestershire Echo}}
{{UK regional daily newspapers}}
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Category:Newspapers established in 1873
Category:1873 establishments in England
Category:Daily newspapers published in the United Kingdom
Category:Newspapers published in Gloucestershire
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