Type Weekly newspaper Owner(s) Blacket Turner Co Founded 1867 | Format Tabloid Editor Andy Murrill | |
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Headquarters Newspaper House
Faraday Road
Newbury
Berkshire
RG14 2DW | ||
The Newbury Weekly News is an award-winning English local weekly newspaper, covering Newbury and West Berkshire. The paper's website is known as Newbury Today. It is published by the Newbury Weekly News Group.
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History
The newspaper was first published in 1867 by Walter Blacket and Thomas Wheildon Turner. It has been independently and family-owned since its establishment, with Blacket Turner & Co being formed in the 1980s.
Circulation
The newspaper's catchment covers an area of 300 square miles (780 km2) and a population of around 150,000. In the company's certificate of circulation (published in February 2010 by the Audit Bureau of Circulations), the average circulation per issue was 20,405 – 100% of which was through newstrade, single copy and subscription sales.
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. In 2007, Newbury Today was named the Picture Editors' Newspaper Website of the Year, an award it shared with The Sun.