Midlands News Association
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| Privately held | |
| Industry | Media |
| Founded | 1889 |
| Founder |
Andrew Carnegie Thomas Graham |
| Headquarters | Wolverhampton, England |
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Area served
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West Midlands, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Mid Wales |
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Key people
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Phil Inman (MD) Keith Harrison (Editor) Martin Wright (Editor) Will Beavis (Head of Digital) |
| Products | Newspapers, Magazines, Websites, Apps |
| Services | Star Employment Services |
Midland News Association (also known as MNA Media) is Britain’s largest independent regional news company. It publishes the UK's biggest-selling regional daily newspaper the Express & Star and its sister title the Shropshire Star, as well as 16 weekly titles and the monthly Wolverhampton Magazine and Shropshire Magazine.
The MNA has one of the fastest growing web networks in the regional press, with 1.3 million average monthly unique users to its sites expressandstar.com and shropshirestar.com – up 33.8 per cent year on year. iPad and iPhone apps for Express & Star and Shropshire Star were launched in January 2012, with further apps for Android and Kindle Fire scheduled for release in January 2013.
Midland News Association is part of the Claverley Group, which also owns the daily newspapers in the Channel Islands, the Jersey Evening Post and Guernsey Press and Star. The company's head office is in Queen Street, Wolverhampton.
Daily Newspapers
Weekly Newspapers
Magazines
The history of the MNA can be traced back more than 130 years to a partnership between two men, including an ancestor of the Graham family who still own the newspapers today.
Scottish-American millionaire Andrew Carnegie founded the Express & Star in Wolverhampton in the 1880s along with a group of radical Liberal Party members, including Thomas Graham.
Carnegie’s aim was to campaign, through a string of regional daily newspapers, for the creation of a British Republic. His dream was to sack the monarchy, scrap the House of Lords and destroy every vestige of privilege in the land.
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