Nottingham Evening Post
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The Nottingham Post is an English
tabloid newspaper
which serves Nottingham
, Nottinghamshire
and parts of Derbyshire
, Leicestershire
and Lincolnshire
.
The Post is published between Monday and Saturday each week, and costs 38p. The paper is owned by the Northcliffe Newspapers Group, part of the Daily Mail & General Trust, and was formerly "Campaigning Newspaper of the Year".
From time-to-time the newspaper includes special features which focus on a particular aspect of life in Nottingham. An example of this was the paper's Muslims in Nottingham series in April 2007. This consisted of a week-long series of interviews and articles in both the newspaper and on the Evening Post website. They focused on Nottingham's Muslim community, giving them the opportunity to express their views of life in the city.
The first edition of The Evening Post was printed by Thomas Forman on 1 May 1878. It was sold for ½d and was four pages long.
In 1963, the Post's main competitor, the Nottingham Evening News, was closed and merged with the Post. Also, the city's two morning papers, the Guardian and the Journal, were merged into The Guardian Journal, which survived until 1973, when it was closed during a period of industrial turmoil in the company.
During the protracted dispute, some Post journalists launched their own newspaper, receiving moral support from Brian Clough, then manager of Nottingham Forest.
The writer Graham Greene was a sub-editor on The Nottingham Journal before joining The Times and, subsequently, launching his career as a novelist.
One of the Post's stalwart journalists, Emrys Bryson, wrote a revue about Nottingham life called 'Owd Yer Tight', which ran at Nottingham Theatre Royal. D H Lawrence published his first short story in the Post's sister paper, the Nottinghamshire Weekly Guardian.
Over the years, several Post journalists moved to Fleet Street. Among them were Robert Bolton of The Sun, Robert Stephens of the Evening Standard and John Marquis of Reuters and Thomson Newspapers, who later went on to become an author and editor of the Bahamas' best-selling daily, The Tribune. Marquis was also voted Provincial Journalist of the Year in the 1974 National Press Awards (now British Press Awards) and was for many years London Sports Editor and Chief Boxing Correspondent of the Thomson newspaper empire, covering many Muhammad Ali fights. The late political sketchwriter Frank Johnson (Daily Telegraph and The Spectator) was briefly a Post journalist, while well-known pop music and sports writer Richard Williams trained on the Post in the early 1960s. Another Post reporter, BBC regional broadcaster John Barsby, became president of the National Union of Journalists.
Among the Post's more illustrious journalists of recent times was Duncan Hamilton, whose highly-acclaimed book about Brian Clough (Provided You Don't Kiss Me) was described by TV commentator John Motson as 'one of the best football books I've ever read.' After 20 years on the Post, Hamilton became deputy editor of the Yorkshire Post.
Well-known regional broadcaster Colin Slater was another Post stalwart, covering Notts County for many years.
In March 1996 the Post was relaunched as a full-colour tabloid, although the Saturday edition had switched to the smaller paper size as far back as 1982.
The Post was based at offices on Forman Street in the centre of Nottingham until 1998 when the paper relocated to Castle Wharf.
As well as the main newspaper, the Post also publishes a weekly sports paper on a Saturday throughout the football (soccer) season, The Football Post (no longer published) which includes coverage of the two local Football League clubs, Nottingham Forest
, and Notts County
, as well as coverage of local non-league football, cricket
, ice hockey
and rugby union
. In addition to this, the Post also previously published Forest Fever, a weekly newspaper-style magazine dedicated to Nottingham Forest Football Club. Its weekly in-depth look at events at The City Ground featured interviews with players, former players, management and supporters.
There is also a monthly Bygones paper, which publishes features and stories on the history of Nottingham.
The previous editor of the Post, Graham Glen, retired in August 2006. Current editor is Malcolm Pheby. One of its longest-serving editors in recent times was Barrie Williams, who served for 14 years before becoming editor of the Western Morning News in Plymouth. Following retirement, Williams wrote a book about his 40-year newspaper career (Ink in My Blood ISBN 1-84683-039-7) and a biography of Tommy Lawton, the great England and Notts County centre-forward who fell on hard times in later life and was taken on as a Post columnist. The book is called Get in There, a phrase Lawton often muttered as he headed the ball into the net. In April, 2011, it was shortlisted for a major sports book award.
From October 2011 the printing of the Post moved from Derby to Birmingham.
Circulation is 35,361 daily.
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...
tabloid newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
which serves Nottingham
Nottingham
Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...
, Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west...
and parts of Derbyshire
Derbyshire
Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...
, Leicestershire
Leicestershire
Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...
and Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...
.
The Post is published between Monday and Saturday each week, and costs 38p. The paper is owned by the Northcliffe Newspapers Group, part of the Daily Mail & General Trust, and was formerly "Campaigning Newspaper of the Year".
From time-to-time the newspaper includes special features which focus on a particular aspect of life in Nottingham. An example of this was the paper's Muslims in Nottingham series in April 2007. This consisted of a week-long series of interviews and articles in both the newspaper and on the Evening Post website. They focused on Nottingham's Muslim community, giving them the opportunity to express their views of life in the city.
The first edition of The Evening Post was printed by Thomas Forman on 1 May 1878. It was sold for ½d and was four pages long.
In 1963, the Post's main competitor, the Nottingham Evening News, was closed and merged with the Post. Also, the city's two morning papers, the Guardian and the Journal, were merged into The Guardian Journal, which survived until 1973, when it was closed during a period of industrial turmoil in the company.
During the protracted dispute, some Post journalists launched their own newspaper, receiving moral support from Brian Clough, then manager of Nottingham Forest.
The writer Graham Greene was a sub-editor on The Nottingham Journal before joining The Times and, subsequently, launching his career as a novelist.
One of the Post's stalwart journalists, Emrys Bryson, wrote a revue about Nottingham life called 'Owd Yer Tight', which ran at Nottingham Theatre Royal. D H Lawrence published his first short story in the Post's sister paper, the Nottinghamshire Weekly Guardian.
Over the years, several Post journalists moved to Fleet Street. Among them were Robert Bolton of The Sun, Robert Stephens of the Evening Standard and John Marquis of Reuters and Thomson Newspapers, who later went on to become an author and editor of the Bahamas' best-selling daily, The Tribune. Marquis was also voted Provincial Journalist of the Year in the 1974 National Press Awards (now British Press Awards) and was for many years London Sports Editor and Chief Boxing Correspondent of the Thomson newspaper empire, covering many Muhammad Ali fights. The late political sketchwriter Frank Johnson (Daily Telegraph and The Spectator) was briefly a Post journalist, while well-known pop music and sports writer Richard Williams trained on the Post in the early 1960s. Another Post reporter, BBC regional broadcaster John Barsby, became president of the National Union of Journalists.
Among the Post's more illustrious journalists of recent times was Duncan Hamilton, whose highly-acclaimed book about Brian Clough (Provided You Don't Kiss Me) was described by TV commentator John Motson as 'one of the best football books I've ever read.' After 20 years on the Post, Hamilton became deputy editor of the Yorkshire Post.
Well-known regional broadcaster Colin Slater was another Post stalwart, covering Notts County for many years.
In March 1996 the Post was relaunched as a full-colour tabloid, although the Saturday edition had switched to the smaller paper size as far back as 1982.
The Post was based at offices on Forman Street in the centre of Nottingham until 1998 when the paper relocated to Castle Wharf.
As well as the main newspaper, the Post also publishes a weekly sports paper on a Saturday throughout the football (soccer) season, The Football Post (no longer published) which includes coverage of the two local Football League clubs, Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest F.C.
Nottingham Forest Football Club is an English Association Football club based in West Bridgford, Nottingham, that plays in the Football League Championship...
, and Notts County
Notts County F.C.
Notts County Football Club are an English professional football club based in Nottingham. They are the oldest of all the clubs in the world that are now professional, having been formed in 1862. They currently play in League One of The Football League, the third tier of the English football system...
, as well as coverage of local non-league football, cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
, ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
and rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
. In addition to this, the Post also previously published Forest Fever, a weekly newspaper-style magazine dedicated to Nottingham Forest Football Club. Its weekly in-depth look at events at The City Ground featured interviews with players, former players, management and supporters.
There is also a monthly Bygones paper, which publishes features and stories on the history of Nottingham.
The previous editor of the Post, Graham Glen, retired in August 2006. Current editor is Malcolm Pheby. One of its longest-serving editors in recent times was Barrie Williams, who served for 14 years before becoming editor of the Western Morning News in Plymouth. Following retirement, Williams wrote a book about his 40-year newspaper career (Ink in My Blood ISBN 1-84683-039-7) and a biography of Tommy Lawton, the great England and Notts County centre-forward who fell on hard times in later life and was taken on as a Post columnist. The book is called Get in There, a phrase Lawton often muttered as he headed the ball into the net. In April, 2011, it was shortlisted for a major sports book award.
From October 2011 the printing of the Post moved from Derby to Birmingham.
Circulation is 35,361 daily.