Type Daily Owner(s) Trinity Mirror Founded 1879 | Format Tabloid Editor Alistair Machray Political alignment Centre-left | |
The Liverpool Echo is a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is published Monday to Sunday, and is Liverpool's daily newspaper. Until 13 January 2012 it had a sister morning paper, the Liverpool Daily Post. It has an average daily circulation of 47,862.
Historically the newspaper was published by the Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Ltd.
The editor is Alistair Jackston, who has previously edited the Welsh edition of the Daily Post.
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 7p Monday to Friday, 10p on Saturday and 5p on Sunday.
The limited company expanded internationally and in 1985 was restructured as Trinity Holdings Plc. The two original newspapers had just previously 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 96 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.
In 1999 Trinity merged with Mirror Group Newspapers to become Trinity Mirror, the largest stable of newspapers in the country.
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.
The circulation as of 2016 is 47,862 a day, down -19.9% year on year.