Birmingham Daily News

Birmingham Daily News

The "Birmingham Daily News" was Europe's first free daily newspaper, [ [http://www.newspapersoc.org.uk/Default.aspx?page=304 History of British Newspapers] The Newspaper Society] [ [http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/2001/08aug/010815birm.shtml Birmingham reunion planned] Holdthefrontpage] launched in Birmingham, England in 1984.

The paper was created by local entrepreneurs Chris and Pat Bullivant and was edited by David Scott, but was later bought by media giant Reed Elsevier. It was published from offices at Five Ways and delivered free to 300,000 houses around the Birmingham and Solihull areas.

Although it operated profitably for many years the "Daily News" suffered from the decline in advertising revenue during the early nineties recession. Production was reduced to weekly in June 1991 with the newspaper retitled "Birmingham Metronews". This in turn was relaunched as a daily publication in 2000 as the Midland edition of the Metro group, distributed free of charge to commuters travelling by public transport.

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