Evening Chronicle
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| Type | Daily regional newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Reach plc |
| Editor | Helen Dalby |
| Founded | 1858 |
| Headquarters | Eldon Court Percy Street Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Website | www |
TheEvening Chronicle,now referred to in print asThe Chronicle,is a dailynewspaperproduced inNewcastle upon TynecoveringNorthregional news, but primarily focused on Newcastle upon Tyne and surrounding area. TheEvening Chronicleis published by ncjMedia, a division ofReach plc.It has a circulation of 26,811 as of 2016, down −12.3% year on year.[1]
History
[edit]TheChronicleoriginated as theNewcastle Chronicle,founded in 1764[2]as a weekly newspaper by Thomas Stack andAnn Fisher.[3]The paper was left to his daughterSarah Hodgsonin 1785.[4]Her husband wasSolomon Hodgsonand in 1794 he sold a part of the business to his brother in law. In 1800 Solomon died andSarah Hodgsonre-established ownership. She bought back the part that had been sold and enthused the business with new vigour.[4]
The business was sold to a consortium led by Mark William Lambert, a local businessman.[citation needed]The repeal of the taxes on newspapers in 1855, along with the hiring of new journalists and the installation of a new printing press, created an opportunity to expand the newspaper. On 1 May 1858 the paper was re-launched as theDaily Chronicle and Northern Counties Advertiser.[5]The editor, businessman and social reformerJoseph Cowen,became its sole owner at the end of 1859. He soon turned theNewcastle Daily Chronicle(as it was titled from 1867)[5]into the most successful newspaper in the area and one of the most successful provincialnewspapers of the 19th century.[6]
In April 2013, theEvening Chroniclebecame known asThe ChronicleorChronicle Live.[7]
Present day
[edit]TheChroniclewas a broadsheet from its inception until 8 October 1997, when it switched to become a tabloid. Prior to 2007 the paper was published twice daily, with an evening edition on sale from the late afternoon.
It concentrates on local news, human interest stories and sport, with a particular emphasis onNewcastle United F.C.A jobs supplement increases the paper's circulation every Thursday. In October 2013, theChronicleand its sister publicationsThe JournalandSunday Sunwere banned from Newcastle United F.C. due to the papers' coverage of a fans' protest march.[8]The ban was later withdrawn.
TheChronicle'spolitical coverage is focused towards the region and local politics: being a predominantlyLaboursupporting region, this feeds into the coverage of current affairs. However, theChroniclehas never made an official endorsement unlike contemporary regional papers such as theEvening Standardor theLiverpool Echo.
Sister papers
[edit]Owned byReach plc,theChronicleis the sister publication of another North East newspaperThe Journal.The two papers once complemented each other withThe Journalbeing published in the morning and theChroniclein the afternoon, though both titles are now printed overnight and are on newsstands along with national titles.
In 2007, a local free paperThe Herald and Postwas rebranded under theChroniclebanner, asChronicle Extra.
TheChroniclefocuses on news and sport in the North East and in particular theNewcastle United.North East sport was covered byThe Pink(a Chronicle supplement) from 1895 to 2005. The "Pink" paper was usually issued after the days football had concluded on a Saturday. The last edition was published on 17 December 2005.[9]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Paul Linford (23 February 2017)."Yorkshire Post tops ABC league but all dailies see sales decline".HoldtheFrontPage.
- ^Purdue, Bill (15 October 2011).Newcastle - The Biography.Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 117.ISBN978-1-4456-0934-8.
- ^Bolckow (21 February 2022),Anne Fisher (1719-1788) plaque - St. Johns Church, Grainger Street, Newcastle upon Tyne,retrieved24 February2022
- ^abIsaac, Peter (23 September 2004)."Hodgson, Solomon (bap. 1760, d. 1800), printer and newspaper proprietor".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.Vol. 1 (online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63760.ISBN978-0-19-861412-8.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ab"Newcastle Daily Chronicle".British Newspaper Archive.Retrieved25 December2023.
- ^Milne, Maurice (1971).The Newspapers of Northumberland and Durham.Newcastle upon Tyne: Frank Graham. pp. 41, 64.ISBN978-0-9004-0919-6.
- ^"About Us".Chronicle Live.Retrieved16 May2017.
- ^"Newcastle United journalist ban emulates Sir Alex Ferguson arrogance".The Guardian.30 October 2013.
- ^David Morton (17 December 2015)."The Chronicle's football Pink - last published on this day 10 years ago".ChronicleLive.Retrieved16 September2020.
