- Liverpool Echo
Infobox Newspaper
name = The Liverpool Echo
caption =
type = Dailynewspaper available Monday to Saturday exceptChristmas Day .
format =Tabloid
foundation = 1879
owners =Trinity Mirror
political =Left Wing
headquarters = Old Hall Street,Liverpool
editor =Alistair Machray
website = [http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/ www.liverpoolecho.co.uk]The "Liverpool Echo" is a newspaper published by
Trinity Mirror onMerseyside inEngland . It is published Monday to Saturday, and is Liverpool's evening newspaper while its sister paper, the "Liverpool Daily Post ", is the morning paper. In the first half of 2007, the "Liverpool Echo" had a Mon-Sat circulation of just under 110,000 copies. [http://abcpdfcerts.abc.org.uk/pdf/certificates/14417942.pdf Liverpool Echo (Mon-Sat) Standard Certificate of Circulation, 01-Jan-2007 to 01-Jul-2007] Audit Bureau of Circulations]Historically the newspaper was published by the Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Ltd.
The editor is Alistair Machray, who has previously edited the "
Liverpool Daily Post ".In
1879 the "Liverpool Echo" was published as a cheaper sister paper to the "Liverpool Daily Post". From its inception until 1917 the newspaper cost a halfpenny.The limited company expanded internationally and in 1985 was restricted as Trinity Holdings Plc. The two original newspapers had just previously been re-launched in tabloid format, reflecting the difficult times of high unemployment and social unrest in Liverpool in the early 1980s. In
1999 Trinity merged withMirror Group Newspapers to becomeTrinity Mirror , the largest stable of newspapers in the country.In June
2007 it was announced that the Liverpool Echo had won the naming rights to the new arena in theAlbert Dock . It is now known as theLiverpool Echo Arena . [ [http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/capitalofculture/news/tm_headline=it--8217-s-the-echo-arena&method=full&objectid=19231013&siteid=50061-name_page.html Details of arena's branding] ]References
External links
* [http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/ournewspapers/liverpoolecho/tm_objectid=11472306%26method=full%26siteid=50061%26page=1%26headline=history%2dof%2dthe%2dliverpool%2ddaily%2dpost%2d%2d%2decho%2dltd-name_page.html History of the newspapers from icLiverpool]
* [http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/ icLiverpool news homepage, carries stories from the "Daily Post" and "Echo"]
* [http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/ Official website for the Liverpool Echo]
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