News Guardian
Newspaper in North Tyneside, England
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The News Guardian is a free weekly newspaper covering three main areas of North Tyneside, a metropolitan district in north east England. It serves Whitley Bay, North Shields and Wallsend with news, sport, entertainment as well as regular property and motoring supplements.
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner | National World |
| Founded | 1985 |
| Website | newsguardian |
The News Guardian series is owned by Sunderland-based Northeast Press Limited, a subsidiary of Johnston Press Ltd. The current News Guardian is a product of three newspaper mergers in 1985, The Whitley Bay Guardian (formerly known as the Seaside Chronicle), the Shields Weekly News and the Wallsend News.[1] It has a distribution of around 68,000 copies.
It has a proud tradition of developing new journalistic talent and is affiliated to the National Council for the Training of Journalists. The Editor is Paul Larkin.[2]
Over the years the newspaper has reported some of the biggest stories to hit the north east including the Meadow Well Riots on 9 September 1991, the decline of the ship yards on the Tyne, and the long-running police investigation into the Sara Cameron murder—the 21-year-old Finnish student found dead in Whitley Bay on 28 April 2000. At the time the newspaper offered a reward as part of its coverage.[3]
The newspaper is produced from its offices in Morpeth, Northumberland. It is printed on the presses of the Johnston Press at Dinnington.
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