Nuneaton News

The Nuneaton News, formerly the Evening News and the Heartland Evening News is a paid tabloid newspaper serving Nuneaton, North Warwickshire, Hinckley and the surrounding areas.[1] The key areas reached by the Nuneaton News are Nuneaton and Bedworth.[2]

Nuneaton News
TypeWeekly
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Reach plc
News editorCharlotte Hart
Founded16 March 1992
Political alignmentNeutral, Populist
HeadquartersNuneaton, Warwickshire
Circulation15,716 (as of Jan 2019 - Dec 2019)
Websitehttps://www.coventrytelegraph.net

Founding

The paper was founded in 1992, by Peter Young, following the decision of the new owners of the Nuneaton Evening Tribune to switch publication to a weekly free sheet and to create a Nuneaton edition of the Coventry Telegraph. The switch to weekly publication led to a downsizing of staff - some of which went on to found a new paper. The paper (at the time published by Nuneaton and District Newspapers Ltd) was the smallest independent newspaper in the country.

In January 2009, the Heartland Evening New renamed under the new name of the Nuneaton News.[3]

Ownership

The independent nature of the newspaper ended in 2006, when Staffordshire Newspapers Ltd (owned by Lord Iliffe) purchased the newspaper.[4] The 'News' already had a working relationship with their new owners, as the paper was printed in Burton by the Burton Mail's publisher. In 2013, ownership passed to Local World, following the merging of assets of Northcliffe Media (from Daily Mail and General Trust) and Iliffe News and Media (from Yattendon Group).

As of March 2020, the Nuneaton News is published by Central Independent News and Media, which is a subsidiary company of Reach plc., also known as Reach Solutions.

References
  1. News, Nuneaton (17 January 2020). "Bigger and better: A new future for the Nuneaton News". coventrytelegraph. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  2. "Nuneaton News". Reach Solutions. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  3. Amos, Owen. "New name for part-free Heartland Evening News". Press Gazette. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  4. Amos, Owen. "New name for part-free Heartland Evening News". Press Gazette. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
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