Manchester Evening News
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Trinity Mirror |
| Editor | Rob Irvine |
| Founded | 1868 |
| Political alignment | Labour |
| Headquarters | Chadderton, Greater Manchester, England |
| Circulation | 52,158 |
| Website | ManchesterEveningNews.co.uk |
The Manchester Evening News (MEN) is a regional daily newspaper covering Greater Manchester in North West England. It is published every day except Sunday and is owned by Trinity Mirror plc following its sale by Guardian Media Group in early 2010. It has an average daily circulation of 52,158, of which 24,560 are fully paid for.
The paper was first published in 1868 by Mitchell Henry as part of his Parliamentary election campaign. Shortly after the election the newspaper was sold to John Edward Taylor, the son of the founder and owner of the Manchester Guardian (now The Guardian), becoming the evening counterpart of the morning newspaper. Taylor brought his brother-in-law Peter Allen in as a partner in the Manchester Evening News and, after Taylor's death in 1907, the Guardian was sold to its editor C. P. Scott while the Evening News passed into the hands of the Allen family. Scott's Guardian bought the Manchester Evening News in the 1920s, reuniting the papers, and the MEN was part of the Guardian Media Group until it was sold, along with GMG's other regional newspapers, to Trinity Mirror in February 2010.
Trinity Mirror agreed that the headquarters of MEN Media would be moved from its current location on Scott Place in the Spinningfields area of Manchester city centre to an existing Trinity Mirror site in Chadderton. This is also where Trinity Mirror titles in North West England are printed.
Despite its "evening" title, the newspaper began publication of a morning edition in November 2004, a controversial move which brought union members to the brink of strike action over new work rotas.
For years the paper was famous for its "Football Green" edition. After the MEN merged with the rival Manchester Evening Chronicle, its more popular "Sporting Pink" was adopted as the "Football Pink". The "Green" and "Pink" names came from being printed in paper of those colours. In the 1970s the Saturday sports paper began using white newsprint, which had become by then the industry standard. The papers were printed in mobile presses inside newspaper vans usually parked near the stadiums. Actually, the Green was a Summer version, with most of the content about cricket with Lancashire's games featuring throughout the season
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