Jersey Evening Post
The current front page layout of the Jersey Evening Post
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Compact (Tabloid) |
| Owner(s) | Claverley Group |
| Editor | Andy Sibcy |
| News editor | Richard Heath |
| Founded | 1890 |
| Headquarters | Saint Saviour, Jersey |
| Circulation | 13,791 (January–June 2016) |
| Website | jerseyeveningpost |
The Jersey Evening Post (JEP) is a local newspaper published six days a week in the Bailiwick of Jersey. It was printed in broadsheet format for 87 years, though it is now of compact (tabloid) size. Its strapline is: "At the heart of island life".
The Evening Post was founded in 1890 by H.P. Butterworth, although it was acquired only a few weeks after its launch by Walter Guiton, whose business printed it.
The Post was produced sheet by sheet on a flatbed press until 1926, when Guiton oversaw the introduction and operation of the first rotary press. Guiton remained the main proprietor and editor until the following year, when his son-in-law Arthur Harrison took over. The latter stayed in both positions until he was succeeded in 1944 by his son, Arthur G. Harrison. Under the Harrisons, the newspaper, while undergoing little technical change, saw testing times as the island came under German military occupation from 1940 to 1945. Although it was still published during these years, the Post was strictly supervised and censored by the occupying forces.
After the island's liberation in 1945, the newspaper grew and in 1957 became the main asset of a newly formed business entity called W E Guiton and Co Ltd.
Following the closure of the Morning News in 1949, the Evening Post has been without a regular English-language competitor, and the closure of the French-language newspaper Les Chroniques de Jersey at the end of 1959 left the Evening Post as the only newspaper of record in Jersey to publish the Jersey Gazette of official notices and promulgation of laws.
In 1967, the newspaper's name was changed from Evening Post to Jersey Evening Post.
Control of the paper passed in 1973 to Frank Walker, who would later become Jersey's first Chief Minister. The Guiton Group expanded outwards from newspaper production in the late 1970s into IT, through its subsidiary company Itex. In 1998 it purchased the Guernsey Evening Press and Star.
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