Morning Advertiser is the only weekly pub trade publication in the UK. It currently has a circulation of more than 32,500 that reaches the key decision-makers in England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 and Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

. In March 2011, William Reed Business Media, bought The Publican from United Business Media and merged the two titles to form The Publican's Morning Advertiser (PMA). As well as a weekly magazine the brand sports a website with regular news updates and a property section for budding landlords, and 14 annual events, the biggest of which - The Publican Awards - takes place in March. The PMA also hosts The Great British Pub Awards and the Great British Pub Food Awards, as well as the Top 50 Gastropubs awards.

History

The Morning Advertiser was first published in 1794 by the London Society of Licensed Victuallers. It was devoted to trade interests, rather than to the support of a political party. Its circulation, however, fostered by the society, was, in the middle of the 19th century, second only to that of The Times

The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...

. Charles Dickens was an early contributor to the paper. It holds claim to the title of oldest continuously produced paper in the UK as it was the only paper to continue to print despite paper rationing during the war.

Editors

Franklin

1828: John Anderson

John Sheridan

John Scott

1850: James Grant

James Grant (newspaper editor)

James Grant was a British newspaper editorGrant helped to found the Elgin Courier in 1827, editing it until 1833. Moving to London, he worked on the Standard, the Morning Chronicle and the Morning Advertiser. He also edited the London Saturday Journal and Grant's London Journal...

1870: Alfred Bate Richards

Alfred Bate Richards

Alfred Bate Richards was an English journalist and author. He turned from law to literature and was the author of a number of popular dramas, volumes of poems, essays, etc. He was the first editor of the Daily Telegraph, and...

1876: N. de la Fleuriere

1877: Thomas Hamber

1882:

1902: Hamilton Fyfe

Hamilton Fyfe

Henry Hamilton Fyfe was a British journalist and writer who served as editor of both the Daily Mirror and the Daily Herald.-Career:...

1903:

2000: Andrew Pring

2009: Paul Charity