Newbury Weekly News
{{short description|English local weekly newspaper}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = The Newbury Weekly News
| image = NWN_frontpage.png
| image_size = 200px
| type = Weekly newspaper
| format = Tabloid
| foundation = 1867
| owners = Newbury News and Media Limited
| political =
| headquarters = Newspaper House
Faraday Road
Newbury
Berkshire
RG14 2DW
| editor = Andy Murrill
| website = [http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/ www.newburytoday.co.uk]
| circulation = 6,824
| circulation_date = 2022
| circulation_ref = {{cite web|url=https://www.abc.org.uk/product/2689 |title= Newbury Weekly News |publisher=Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK) |date=21 February 2023 |access-date=10 May 2023}}
| oclc = 500150445
| ISSN = 0961-9739
}}
The Newbury Weekly News is an English local weekly newspaper, covering Newbury and West Berkshire. The paper's website is known as Newbury Today.{{cite web|url=http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/about.aspx|title=About Newbury Today|date=2008|work=Newbury Today|publisher=Newbury Weekly News|accessdate=15 March 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100315210004/http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/about.aspx|archivedate=15 March 2010}} It is published by the Newbury Weekly News Group.
The Newbury Weekly News featured in a short Central Office of Information film in 1952, titled "Local Newspaper".
History
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The newspaper was first published in 1867 by Walter Blacket and Thomas Wheildon Turner.{{cite web|url=http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-se/newbury-weekly-news/ |title=Newbury Weekly News |date=12 February 2009 |work=British Newspapers Online |publisher=British Expat Magazine |accessdate=15 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090529150122/http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-se/newbury-weekly-news/ |archivedate=29 May 2009 }} It has been independently and family-owned since its establishment, with Blacket Turner & Co being formed in the 1980s.{{cite web|url=http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/nwn.aspx|title=About Newbury Weekly News|date=2008|work=Newbury Today|publisher=Newbury Weekly News|accessdate=15 March 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100307214322/http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/nwn.aspx|archivedate=7 March 2010}}
The paper celebrated its 150th anniversary in February 2017 with a special edition including a reprint of the first Newbury Weekly News newspaper.{{cite web|url= https://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/home/20557/newbury-weekly-news-is-150-years-old-today.html |title=Newbury Weekly News 150 today|date=7 February 2017|publisher=Newbury Weekly News|accessdate=21 May 2020}}{{cite web|url= https://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/home/20704/newbury-weekly-news-special-week-to-celebrate-150-years.html |title=Newbury Weekly News 150th week|date=22 February 2017|publisher=Newbury Weekly News|accessdate=21 May 2020}}
On 1 May 2019, the paper was sold to Iliffe Media Group.{{fact|date=October 2021}}
Circulation
The newspaper's catchment covers an area of {{convert|300|mi2|km2}} and a population of around 150,000. 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/regional-abcs-weeklies-reading-chronicle-one-five-uk-local-weekly-newspapers-growing-print/|title=Circulation - July to December 2015|date=February 2016|work=Regional Publications|publisher=PressGazette|accessdate=30 July 2019}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/2007/02feb/070201new.shtml|archive-url=https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20100323014530/http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/2007/02feb/070201new.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 March 2010|title=Family-owned news firm marks 140 years|date=1 February 2007|work=Regional press news|publisher=Hold the Front Page|accessdate=15 March 2010}}
In 2007, Newbury Today was named the Picture Editors’ Newspaper Website of the Year, an award it shared with The Sun.{{cite web|url=http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/media_centre/files2007/And+the+winners+are+-+the+2007+Picture+Editors+Awards+announced.htm|title=Picture Editors' Awards 2007 Press Release|date=21 June 2007|work=City of London website|publisher=City of London Website|accessdate=27 December 2010}}
In 2019, Newbury Weekly News won the Society of Editor’s Regional Press Awards Best paid for weekly newspaper (circulation above 10000) category. {{cite web|url= https://www.societyofeditors.org/events/regional-press-awards/regional-press-awards-winners/|title=Regional Press Awards|date=17 May 2019|publisher=Society of Editors|accessdate=21 May 2020}} A NWN photographer was also shortlisted for the Weekly Photographer of the Year at the event.
References
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External links
- [https://www.newburytoday.co.uk/ Newbury Today]
Category:Newspapers established in 1867
Category:Weekly newspapers published in the United Kingdom
Category:1867 establishments in England
Category:Newspapers published in Berkshire
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