Sunderland Echo
.jpg) The first edition of the Echo – on 22 December 1873
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Johnston Press |
| Publisher | Northeast Press |
| Editor | Joy Yates |
| Founded | 22 December 1873 (as The Sunderland Echo and Shipping Gazette) |
| Political alignment | Independent |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 2nd Floor, Alexander House, 1 Mandarin Road, Rainton Bridge Business Park, Houghton-le-Spring, DH4 5RA. |
| Circulation | 15,249 daily |
| Sister newspapers | Hartlepool Mail, Shields Gazette |
| Website | http://www.sunderlandecho.com |
The Sunderland Echo is an evening newspaper serving the Sunderland, South Tyneside and East Durham areas of North East England. The newspaper was founded by Samuel Storey, Edward Backhouse, Edward Temperley Gourley, Charles Palmer, Richard Ruddock, Thomas Glaholm and Thomas Scott Turnbull in 1873, as the Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette. Designed to provide a platform for the Radical views held by Storey and his partners, it was also Sunderland's first local daily paper.
The inaugural edition of the Echo was printed in Press Lane, Sunderland on 22 December 1873; 1,000 copies were produced and sold for a halfpenny each. The Echo survived intense competition in its early years, as well as the depression of the 1930s and two World Wars. Sunderland was heavily bombed in the Second World War and, although the Echo building was undamaged, it was forced to print its competitor's paper under wartime rules. It was during this time that the paper's format changed, from a broadsheet to its current tabloid layout, because of national newsprint shortages.
The Echo is published Monday–Saturday and is part of the Johnston Press group—one of the United Kingdom's largest publishers of local and regional newspapers. As of Jun 2015, the paper had an average daily circulation of 16,860, with around 43,500 readers, and a very active website. It retails at 70 pence. The Echo was based at Echo House, Pennywell Industrial Estate, Sunderland, from 1976 until April 2015. It now shares a site with sister papers the Hartlepool Mail and Shields Gazette at Alexander House, 1 Mandarin Road, Rainton Bridge Business Park, Houghton-le-Spring.
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