The Mail

[rabbit]

The on line appearance of the Mail has changed.

It used to have the "7 day catch-up" just at the weekend, but it is still there today.

Is this a forewarning of Johnston Press about to announce a change to a Weekly print version?

After all they changed five of their papers last \October to weekly from daily editions.

JP now have only about 13 dailys, whereas they have some 175 paid for weekly papers.

[bill]

Nope .....they tweeted that they were having trouble with their website this afternoon

[mk1]

Nope .....they tweeted that they were having trouble with their website this afternoon

The straight to-print facility where outside agency Press Releases are sent directly to the press overloaded!


Joy was in the paper today and I gotta say it-those eyes are scary!

[steveL]

JY is now editing three papers: The Mail, Peterlee Star (isn't that a freebie?) and the Shields Gazette. I think this is a stepping stone from having an editor editing one paper sixs day a week to an editor editing several papers one day a week.

It's only a mattter of time.

[rabbit]

The Mail website edition seems to have returned to normal.

I have found some circulation figures for daily paid for newspapers from http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/49929

These are not up to date but show the decline in sales last year in the first half of 2012.

Near the foot of the list in red is the Hartlepool Mail.

The five newspapers that Johnston Press announced last October to be changed to weekly ar shown in bold. Only one of these had a circulation figure less than the Mail.

Any decision to cjange over to weekly from daily is not just down to circulation though, but it worth looking at these numbers.

I think that the Hartlepool Mail now has the lowest circulation of any of the Johnston Press paid for "dailys"

As I originally pointed out, the company has 13 (or is it 11?) paid for "dailys" but some 175 paid for "weeklys".

Regional dailies ranked by total circulation in the first half of 2012 (source ABC)

Name of title : percentage paid-for ; percentage change year on year


Express & Star (West Midlands) : 100,244 ; 95.7% Paid ; -11.4%

Liverpool Echo : 80,762 ; 100.0% Paid ; -5.5%

Manchester Evening News : 78,984 ; 66.7% Paid ; -13.2%

Aberdeen - Press & Journal : 68,659 ; 99.2% Paid ; -3.4%

Dundee Courier & Advertiser : 56,243 ; 98.8% Paid ; -9.3%

Belfast Telegraph : 53,847 ; 79.2% Paid ; -9.2%

Shropshire Star : 49,751 ; 100.0% Paid ; -10.5%

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Evening Chronicle : 49,199 ; 100.0% Paid ; -6.3%

Glasgow - Evening Times : 45,942 ; 100.0% Paid ; -12.3%

Leicester Mercury : 45,465 ; 99.2% Paid ; -11.1%

The Sentinel : 45,343 ; 100.0% Paid ; -10.7%

Aberdeen - Evening Express : 43,067 ; 99.7% Paid ; -10.0%

Birmingham Mail : 42,252 ; 95.2% Paid ; -10.5%

Irish News - Morning : 42,084 ; 99.8% Paid ; -3.6%

Hull Daily Mail : 41,222 ; 100.0% Paid ; -5.3%

Darlington - The Northern Echo : 38,479 ; 100.0% Paid ; -6.6%

Leeds - Yorkshire Post : 37,833 ; 96.6% Paid ; -4.7%

Portsmouth - News & Sports Mail : 37,257 ; 100.0% Paid ; -10.1%

Teesside - Evening Gazette : 36,986 ; 100.0% Paid ; -8.8%

South Wales Evening Post : 36,623 ; 98.0% Paid ; -8.8%

Edinburgh - Evening News : 35,611 ; 98.7% Paid ; -10.9%

Sheffield Star & Green 'Un : 35,089 ; 100.0% Paid ; -5.8%

Leeds - Yorkshire Evening Post : 33,805 ; 100.0% Paid ; -7.4%

Bristol Evening Post : 33,784 ; 97.6% Paid ; -11.9%

Coventry Telegraph : 31,064 ; 93.7% Paid ; -9.6%

Nottingham Post : 30,648 ; 100.0% Paid ; -13.3%

Daily Post (Wales) : 30,585 ; 100.0% Paid ; -3.8%

Plymouth - Western Morning News : 30,325 ; 100.0% Paid ; -2.4%

Cardiff - South Wales Echo - Evening : 30,178 ; 100.0% Paid ; -7.9%

Derby Telegraph : 30,137 ; 99.6% Paid ; -6.9%

Southampton - Southern Daily Echo : 29,973 ; 100.0% Paid ; -6.2%

Sunderland Echo & Football Echo : 29,366 ; 100.0% Paid ; -10.6%

Southend - Basildon - Castle Point - Echo : 29,125 ; 100.0% Paid ; -3.3%

Plymouth - The Herald : 26,803 ; 99.1% Paid ; -9.8%

Bristol - Western Daily Press : 26,053 ; 100.0% Paid ; -8.0%

Wales - The Western Mail - Morning : 25,435 ; 100.0% Paid ; -5.6%

Bournemouth - The Daily Echo : 24,825 ; 100.0% Paid ; -7.4%

York - The Press : 24,312 ; 100.0% Paid ; -6.5%

Bradford - Telegraph & Argus : 24,163 ; 100.0% Paid ; -9.7%

Grimsby Telegraph : 23,791 ; 99.6% Paid ; -8.4%

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Journal : 23,291 ; 100.0% Paid ; -11

Dundee Evening Telegraph : 22,496 ; 99.2% Paid ; -4.8%

The Argus Brighton : 22,399 ; 100.0% Paid ; -10.2%

Ulster - News Letter : 22,198 ; 98.5% Paid ; -5.5%

South Wales Argus - Evening : 21,437 ; 100.0% Paid ; -8.1%

Lancashire Telegraph - Blackburn : 20,870 ; 100.0% Paid ; -10.3%

Lancashire Evening Post : 20,379 ; 100.0% Paid ; -12.1%

Cambridge News : 19,860 ; 87.4% Paid ; -5.4%

The Bolton News : 19,740 ; 100.0% Paid ; -10.0%

The Gazette - Blackpool : 19,185 ; 100.0% Paid ; -13.1%

Huddersfield Daily Examiner : 18,971 ; 100.0% Paid ; -7.6%

The Citizen : 18,501 ; 99.5% Paid ; -7.1%

Jersey Evening Post : 17,912 ; 97.9% Paid ; -1.0%

Oxford Mail : 17,556 ; 100.0% Paid ; -7.9%

Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph - Kettering : 17,018 ; 100.0% Paid ; -8.2%

Swindon Advertiser : 16,837 ; 100.0% Paid ; -6.8%

Dorset Echo : 16,313 ; 100.0% Paid ; -6.4%

The Leader (Wrexham, Flintshire & Chester) : 15,314 ; 100.0% Paid ; -5.1%

Colchester - Daily Gazette : 15,259 ; 100.0% Paid ; -5.6%

Northampton Chronicle & Echo : 15,197 ; 100.0% Paid ; -7.4%

Guernsey Press & Star : 15,013 ; 92.9% Paid ; -1.0%

Gloucestershire Echo : 14,999 ; 98.7% Paid ; -5.6%

Halifax Courier : 14,272 ; 100.0% Paid ; -9.4%

Peterborough Evening Telegraph : 13,834 ; 100.0% Paid ; -10.5%

South Shields - Shields Gazette : 13,720 ; 100.0% Paid ; -

Greenock Telegraph : 13,470 ; 100.0% Paid ; -6.1%

Worcester News : 13,305 ; 100.0% Paid ; -7.2%

Barrow - North West Evening Mail : 12,884 ; 100.0% Paid ; -8.8%

Oldham Evening Chronicle : 12,849 ; 99.8% Paid ; -11.1%

Hartlepool Mail : 12,789 ; 100.0% Paid ; -9.9%

Burton Mail : 11,612 ; 99.5% Paid ; -4.8%

Carlisle - News and Star East : 11,271 ; 100.0% Paid ; -8.3%

Scarborough Evening News : 9,914 ; 100.0% Paid ; -9.5%

Paisley Daily Express : 6,887 ; 100.0% Paid ; -8.6%

Wigan Evening Post : 6,213 ; 100.0% Paid ; -12.4%

Carlisle - News and Star West : 4,302 ; 100.0% Paid ; -12.9%

Doncaster Star : 1,931 ; 100.0% Paid ; -17.0%

[steveL]

It's a shame how the paper has gone but I remeber looking about 4 years ago and the circulation was then 17,000 - that's a hell of a drop in very few years