Liverpool Echo
{{short description|English daily tabloid newspaper}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2015}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Liverpool Echo
| image = Liverpool Echo building 13 March 2013 004 stitch.jpg
| caption = Liverpool Echo building in March 2013{{Credit|John Bradley}}
| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Tabloid
| foundation = 1879
| owners = Reach plc
| political = Centre-left
| headquarters = Liverpool, Merseyside
| editor = Maria Breslin
| website = {{official URL}}
| circulation = 10,961
| circulation_date = 2024
| circulation_ref = {{cite web |title=Liverpool Echo |url=https://www.abc.org.uk/product/9783 |publisher=Audit Bureau of Circulations |date=30 July 2024 |access-date=19 December 2024}}
| logo = Liverpool Echo logo.svg
| logo_size = 250px
}}
The Liverpool Echo is a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror North West & North Wales – a subsidiary company of Reach plc and is based in St. Paul's Square, Liverpool, England.{{Cite web |title=Liverpool Echo: Latest Liverpool and Merseyside news, sports and what's on |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/ |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=Liverpool Echo |language=en}} It is published Monday through Sunday, and is Liverpool's daily newspaper. Until January 13, 2012 , it had a sister morning paper, the Liverpool Daily Post. Between July and December 2022, it had an average daily circulation of 15,395.
Historically, the newspaper was published by the Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Ltd. Its office is in St Paul's Square, Liverpool, having downsized from Old Hall Street in March 2018.{{Cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/echo-move-new-home-liverpool-14039002|title=ECHO to move to new home in Liverpool city centre opposite current office|first=Alistair|last=Houghton|date=14 December 2017|website=Liverpool Echo}}
History
In 1879, the Liverpool Echo was published as a cheaper sister paper to the Liverpool Daily Post. From its inception until 1917 the newspaper cost a halfpenny. It is now £1.40p Monday to Friday, £1.80p on Saturday and £1.40p on Sunday.
The limited company expanded internationally and underwent restructuring in 1985, becoming Trinity International Holdings Plc. Prior to this restructuring, the two original newspapers had recently been re-launched in tabloid format.
A special Sunday edition of the Echo was published on 16 April 1989, for reporting on the previous day's Hillsborough disaster, in which 97 Liverpool F.C. fans were fatally injured at the FA Cup semi-final tie in Sheffield. Every single one of the 75,000 copies printed was sold.{{cite news |last=MacArthur |first=Brian |date=23 April 1989 |title=How Every Picture Told a Different Story of Tragedy; Hillsborough Football Disaster |newspaper=The Sunday Times |location=London |via=Gale |quote=A special Sunday edition of the Liverpool Echo sold all 75,000 copies.}}
In 1999 Trinity merged with Mirror Group Newspapers to become Trinity Mirror, the largest stable of newspapers in the country.{{cite web |last1=Barrie |first1=Chris |title=Trinity wins Mirror deal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/1999/jul/31/8 |website=The Guardian |access-date=9 June 2020 |date=31 July 1999}} In 2018, Trinity Mirror was rebranded as Reach plc.{{cite web |title=Daily Mirror publisher Trinity to change name |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/trinity-reach-name-change-daily-mirror-publisher-revenue-slump-a8239996.html |website=The Independent |access-date=9 June 2020 |date=5 March 2018}}
On 7 January 2014 it was announced that a regular Sunday edition of the paper would be launched. The Sunday Echo is "a seventh day of publication, not an independent product", according to the paper.{{cite news |author= |date=7 January 2014 |title=Liverpool Echo to Launch Sunday Echo on January 19 |url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-echo-launch-sunday-echo-6476727 |newspaper=Liverpool Echo |access-date=7 January 2014}}
In 2008 the paper moved printing from Liverpool to Trinity Mirror Plc, Oldham, Greater Manchester, while journalists remain based at St Paul's Square in Liverpool city centre.
In 2020, editor-in-chief Alistair Machray stood down and was replaced by Maria Breslin.{{cite web | url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-echo-editor-ali-machray-18567319 | title=Liverpool Echo editor Ali Machray to stand down | date=9 July 2020 }}
Criticism has been directed at the Echo for its perceived bias towards local politicians. In 2024, Liam Thorp, the paper's political editor, collaborated on a book titled "Head North: A Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain" with the metro mayors of Manchester and Liverpool, Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.{{cite news |last1=Ball |first1=Jonny |title=Battle cry of the Scouse dads |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2024/03/battle-cry-of-the-scouse-dads |access-date=28 March 2024 |work=New Statesman |date=11 March 2024}}
References
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External links
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- {{Official website|https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk}}
{{Trinity Mirror}}
{{UK regional daily newspapers}}
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Category:Newspapers published in Merseyside
Category:Newspapers established in 1879
Category:Mass media in Liverpool
Category:Daily newspapers published in the United Kingdom