DCMS: Overview of the Press Market

Dailies, Paid Dailies, Free Sundays, Paid Sundays, Free

Weekly, Paid Weekly, Free Weekly, Mixed Distribution Fortnightly / Monthly

Number of Regional Newspapers 90 12

10 505 258 100 65

Weekly Circulation (m) 21.24 0.60 2.56 5.37 1.59

Total Dailies Total Sundays Weekly, Paid Weekly, Free Rest of Market

Figure 4 Breakdown of local newspapers by frequency and distribution model, July 2017
Sources: ABC; Mediatique

The tables below list the top 10 daily newspapers, free weekly newspapers and paid weekly newspapers by
circulation.

Daily Local Newspapers Location Newspaper group Daily Circulation Model

Metro Multiple25 Associated Newspapers 889,440 Free

Evening Standard London ESI Media 883,003 Free
City AM London City AM 90,741 Free
Press & Journal Northern Scotland DC Thomson 48,208 Paid
Express & Star West Midlands MNA 47,669 Paid
Manchester Evening News Greater Manchester Trinity Mirror 39,422 Paid
Liverpool Echo Liverpool Trinity Mirror 38,474 Paid
Belfast Telegraph Belfast Independent News & Media 36,403 Paid
Courier Dundee DC Thomson 35,813 Paid
Figure 5 Top 10 local daily titles by average daily circulation, Jul-Dec 2017
Source: ABC

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Metro is distributed in Bath, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Derby, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool,
London, Manchester, Nottingham, Newcastle and Sheffield.
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Weekly Local Newspapers Location Newspaper group Weekly Circulation Model

Manchester Weekly News Greater Manchester Trinity Mirror 235,545 Free

Champion Series Merseyside/West Champion Newspapers 164,303 Free
Lancashire
Waltham Forest News East London / Newsquest 97,230 Free
West Essex
Hackney Today London Hackney Council 91,762 Free
Wirral Globe Wirral Newsquest 85,064 Free
Norwich Extra Norwich Archant 57,487 Free
Midweek Visiter Southport Trinity Mirror 56,518 Free
Rotherham Record Rotherham Regional Media 51,926 Free
St. Helens Star St. Helens Newsquest 49,751 Free
Figure 6 Top 10 local free weekly newspapers by average weekly circulation, Jul-Dec 2017
Source: ABC

Weekly Local Newspapers Location Newspaper group Weekly Circulation Model

Sunday Life Belfast Independent News & Media 32,892 Paid

Isle of Wight County Press Isle of Wight Newsquest 23,006 Paid
Kent Messenger Kent Iliffe 20,800 Paid
Newcastle Sunday Sun Newcastle Trinity Mirror 20,155 Paid
Barnsley Chronicle Yorkshire Barnsley Chronicle 19,855 Paid
Rotherham & South Yorkshire Regional Media Paid
Yorkshire Advertiser 18,772
Hereford Times Herefordshire Newsquest 18,460 Paid
Sunday Herald Scotland Newsquest 18,387 Paid
Scotland on Sunday Scotland Johnston Press 16,289 Paid
Figure 7 Top 10 local paid weekly newspapers by average weekly circulation, Jul-Dec 2017
Source: ABC

Ownership models Local and regional press

At local and regional level, we identified four main types of publishers in terms of ownership model:
Consolidated, publicly traded companies: this includes Trinity Mirror (29% market share by
circulation26), Newsquest, a subsidiary of US listed company Gannett Inc. (13%) and Johnston Press
(9%), which taken together represent 52% of the total number of local and regional titles and 51% of
the total circulation of local and regional newspapers in the UK. Each of these groups control a wide
variety of titles located all across the country, of varying size, frequency and distribution model;

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Source: ABC, July 2017.
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