- Newham Recorder
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Newham Recorder Type Weekly newspaper Format Tabloid Owner Archant Editor Colin Grainger Founded 1968 Political alignment None Language English Headquarters Media House,
539 High Road,
IlfordCirculation 9360 (January 2010)[1] Official website Newham Recorder The Newham Recorder is a local weekly newspaper distributed in the London Borough of Newham. It is published weekly, on a Wednesday, in the tabloid format by Archant, the UK's largest independently-owned regional media business.
The newspaper was founded in 1968, three years after the county boroughs of West Ham and East Ham - both of which had previously been part of Essex - were combined to form the new London Borough of Newham. Prior to that, since the early 1900s, the area had been served by the East Ham Recorder, a slip edition of the Ilford Recorder.
The newspaper has had only two editors in its lifetime so far - Tom Duncan (made a freeman of Newham in recognition of his work in the community) and, from 1997[citation needed], Colin Grainger who joined as a trainee reporter upon leaving a local school in 1972.[2]
The Newham Recorder received praise from the police for its coverage of the rioting and criminal disorder of August 2011.[3]
References
- ^ http://www.abc.org.uk/Data/ProductPage.aspx?tid=20807
- ^ "The Heartbeat of Newham". Newham Recorder's own website. http://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/home/about-the-newham-recorder. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
- ^ "Police praise for London weekly's riot coverage". Press Gazette. 24 August 2011. http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=47758. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
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