Waltham Forest Guardian

Your Local Guardian, formerly the Waltham Forest Guardian, is a weekly local newspaper sold every Thursday in the London boroughs of Waltham Forest and Redbridge.

Your Local Guardian (Waltham Forest Guardian)
TypeWeekly newspaper
Owner(s)Newsquest
EditorVictoria Birch
Founded1876
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersObserver House, Caxton Way, Watford, WD188RJ
Websitewww.guardian-series.co.uk

The newspaper's weekly circulation is 2,508 copies, according to ABC figures for July to December 2017.[1]

The paper is part of the Guardian Series of local newspapers, which also included the Chingford Guardian, Wanstead and Woodford Guardian, and the Epping Forest Guardian.

In September 2018 the newspaper was rebranded as Your Local Guardian, the result of a merger between the Chingford, Wanstead and Woodford and Waltham Forest editions.

The group is owned by Newsquest, which also prints dozens of local and regional papers across the UK.

History

Early days

The newspaper was founded in 1876 under the name The Walthamstow and Leyton Guardian.[2]

In 1935 the Walthamstow Guardian opened new headquarters in Forest Road.[3]

The newspaper group merged with the Epping Gazette series in 1942.[4]

In 1978 the company moved to new headquarters in Forest Road, Walthamstow. Production later moved to an office in Larkshall Road, Highams Park.[5]

Relocation from Waltham Forest

In 2009 production of the newspaper moved out of Waltham Forest for the first time in its history, with staff relocating to an office in nearby Epping in Essex. The newspaper subsequently relocated again to a Newsquest office in Watford.[6]

In May 2015 Newsquest announced it was moving some of the newspaper's production to a 'subbing hub' in Weymouth, Dorset. The publisher said the move was an investment in the 'installation of a new editorial system to improve operational efficiency within the business and save costs'.[7]

But just over a year later, in August 2016, the move was dubbed a 'failed experiment' by the National Union of Journalists after Newsquest announced it was cutting 19 jobs at the Weymouth site and again moving production of its newspapers back to local regions.[8] The Weymouth office was then closed in June 2017.

In September 2018 the newspaper was relaunched as Your Local Guardian.

Editors
  • Peter Dyke 2000s
  • Pat Stannard 2000s - 2008
  • Amanda Patterson (group editor) 2008 - 200?
  • Anthony Longden (group editor) 200?- 2012
  • Tim Jones (group editor) 2012 - 2017
  • Victoria Birch (group editor) 2017–present[9]
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References
  1. "Regional non-daily paid-for ABCs: Trinity Mirror sees number of paid-for weeklies drop sales by 20 per cent or more". Press Gazette. London. 5 March 2018.
  2. "HISTORY: The Guardian and Gazette Series". This is Local London. London. 15 June 2012.
  3. "HISTORY: The Guardian and Gazette Series". This is Local London. London. 15 June 2012.
  4. "HISTORY: The Guardian and Gazette Series". This is Local London. London. 15 June 2012.
  5. "HISTORY: The Guardian and Gazette Series". This is Local London. London. 15 June 2012.
  6. "HISTORY: The Guardian and Gazette Series". This is Local London. London. 15 June 2012.
  7. "Newsquest moves production of North London weeklies 140 miles away to Weymouth". Press Gazette. London. 15 May 2015.
  8. "'Newsquest subbing hubs are failed experiment' says NUJ after 19 production jobs put at risk". Press Gazette. London. 18 August 2016.
  9. "Editor responsible for 18 weeklies leaves regional publisher". Hold the Front Page. London. 30 January 2017.


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