- Y Cymro
Infobox Newspaper
name = Y Cymro
caption = Cover of "Y Cymro",5 October 2007
type = Weeklynewspaper
format = Compact
foundation = 1932
ceased publication =
price = 50p
owners = Tindle News
publisher = North Wales Newspapers
editor = William Owen
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language = Welsh
political =
circulation = 4,000
headquarters = 9 Bank Place,Porthmadog ,Gwynedd , LL48 9AA
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website ="Y Cymro ("The Welshman")" is a
Welsh language newspaper , first published in 1932. ["The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales". John Davies,Nigel Jenkins , Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch (2008) pg615 ISBN 9780708319536]"Y Cymro" was founded in
Wrexham , and succeeded other newspapers of the same name that had existed during the 19th and early 20th century. It is the only national newspaper in the Welsh language, and is published weekly, on a Wednesday.In 1945,
John Roberts Williams became editor. His seventeen years in the post saw the paper increase its circulation and introduced a new, more "professional" journalistic style. [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20041030/ai_n12812413 Obituary: John Roberts Williams] , "The Independent ",October 30 2004 ]In 2004 it was sold by North Wales Newspapers to entrepreneur Sir
Ray Tindle . Prior to this, the publication day was Saturday.Current circulation is estimated at 4000. [PDFlink| [http://www.aber.ac.uk/~merwww/images/MonograffCymraeg231006.pdf Mercator Media Monographs — The Welsh Language in the Media] |347 KiB , Mercator Media, 2006]
ee also
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Foinse - Irish language weekly,County Galway (10,000 circulation)
*List of Celtic language media References
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