Coventry Evening Telegraph
Summary
The Coventry Telegraph is a local English tabloid newspaper. Originally called The Midland Daily Telegraph, it was founded in 1891 by William Isaac Iliffe as Coventry's first daily newspaper, a four-page broadsheet newspaper originally sold for a ha'penny a copy. It changed its name to Coventry Evening Telegraph on 17 November 1941, and to Coventry Telegraph on 2 October 2006.Today it belongs to the Trinity Mirror group, the biggest regional newspaper publisher in the UK and has a daily circulation of approximately 47,000 copies [Jul-Dec 2007], with a readership figure of around 140,000.15 November 1940 was the only day in the paper's history that it wasn't able to publish - due to the Blitz raid on the city.From 1946 until the end of April 2004, a separate sports publication, The Pink, was printed every Saturday evening.
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Sales of regional dailies slump - but two titles record increases
Many regional daily papers suffered double-digit circulation falls in the second half of last year, according to the ABC audit figures released on Wednesday.
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Birmingham Mail reports biggest drop in ABC figures for morning papers
Trinity Mirror title's circulation down 4. 7% compared to second half of 2011 with the Hull Daily Mail performing best.
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Preston journalism students meet up for reunion after 41 years
A group of journalists who studied together in Preston 41 years ago met for a reunion last week to celebrate the Preston Guild. The class of 1970-71 studied on the NCTJ pre-entry journalism course at Harris College, the forerunner of UCLAN, and 20 of them gathered for a weekend of nostalgia last week.
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Local news crisis: why newspapers remain so important to the public
Today's extract from What do we mean by local?* is by Fran Collingham, assistant director with responsibility for the communications service at Coventry city council.
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Local news crisis: look what journalists who know their patch can achieve
Today's extract from What do we mean by local?* is by Les Reid, political correspondent of the Coventry Telegraph and also a contributor to national titles. He speaks up for regional journalism by pointing out what reporters can achieve on behalf of their communities. . .
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Regional newspaper editor suspended
The editor of the Coventry Telegraph, Darren Parkin, has been suspended. He was, according to a story in a rival paper, the Coventry Observer, escorted from the office last Wednesday.
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Campaigning journalism from Coventry Telegraph secures potentially life-saving operations
Campaigning journalism by the Coventry Telegraph has helped ensure that a 72-year-old woman and another OAP can have potentially life-saving operations. The Telegraph reports: The Telegraph tracked down new research showing experts believed the op – a Fenestrated Endovascular Aortic Aneurysm Repair – was a viable alternative to open surgery. Coventry MPs Geoffrey Robinson and Bob Ainsworth joined [.
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Trinity Mirror Closes Papers, Cuts Jobs
Trinity Mirror is to carry out another restructuring of its Midlands operation in order to cut almost 70 jobs. It will also close three free weeklies. Some 38 editorial staff and 11 advertising employees are to go from TM's Birmingham division. . .
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Press Gazette: Neville Thurlbeck tells his part in ‘Jacobean revenge drama’ of hacking
Neville Thurlbeck, the former chief reporter at the News of the World, has penned a first person account of his part in the phone-hacking saga.
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Eastern Daily Press bucks sales slide
Archant's Norwich-based paper's circulation rises 0. 6% year on year, but most other morning regional papers suffer declines.
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