The Northern Echo
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The Northern Echo is a regional daily morning newspaper based in the town of Darlington in North East England, serving mainly southern County Durham and northern Yorkshire. The paper covers national as well as regional news. In 2007, its then-editor claimed that it was one of the most famous provincial newspapers in the United Kingdom.[2] Its first edition was published on 1 January 1870.
Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Compact (tabloid) |
Owner(s) | Newsquest |
Founder(s) | John Hyslop Bell and the Pease family |
Editor | Gavin Foster |
Founded | 1870 |
Political alignment | Independent |
Language | English |
Headquarters | Darlington, County Durham |
Circulation | 8,701 (as of 2023)[1] |
Sister newspapers | Darlington & Stockton Times The Advertiser |
ISSN | 2043-0442 |
Website | thenorthernecho |
Its second editor was W. T. Stead, the early pioneer of British investigative journalism, who earned the paper accolades from the leading Liberals of the day, seeing it applauded as "the best paper in Europe." Harold Evans, one of the great campaigning journalists of all time, was editor of The Northern Echo in the 1960s and argued the case for cervical smear tests for women. Evans agreed with Stead that reporting was "a very good way of attacking the devil".[3]