Hartlepool Mail

[The Great Dictator]

Last time i checked Johnston press were £478m in debt.

[Shepherd]

That's a lot of debt to carry in a shrinking business?

Anyone know what the circulation of the Mail was at its peak. I think I remember seeing a circulation of 18,000 per day about 10 years ago???

[The Great Dictator]

I think it was less than that..

[rabbit]

The Johnston Press results date has been changed to 25 April.

As mentioned above, a change to a weekly paper version cannot be ruled out as there is talk of concentrating more upon on-line versions.

see http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-keep-calm-carry-on-and-dont-charge-for-news-johnstons-highfield-says/

quote "“We’re going to flip the model from newspaper-first every day to digital-first, and you take the best and produce a bumper weekly in print. By 2020, that will be the model. We’ve run the numbers and think that can be a profitable model.”

[Lord Elpus]

That's a lot of debt to carry in a shrinking business?

Anyone know what the circulation of the Mail was at its peak. I think I remember seeing a circulation of 18,000 per day about 10 years ago???

I certain when Harry Blackwood was the Editor circulation was around 22,000

[Shepherd]

Mr Carpetbagger did for Harry B, about 8 years ago???

22k to 14k, 1000 a year.

That's some tail off in readership, if the facts are correct?

[Shepherd]

21st March 2007 was the day Harry was sacked:-

The below is a quote hold the Front Page 25th June 2007.


The political row blew up when the Mail was accused of giving preferential treatment to a man in a monkey costume during the elections for a Hartlepool mayor – the monkey eventually defeating the Labour candidate.

The vote saw Hartlepool United mascot Stuart Drummond swept to power ahead of hot Labour favourite Leo Gillen – and as soon as a monkey had been declared the first elected mayor, the Hartlepool Mail was blamed for the main political parties' electoral demise.

[Lucy Lass-Tick]

I've also noticed that the Mail doesn't seem to want uncensored comments on 99% of the online articles (sports excepted), only allowing opinions via themselves. This seems to be a local policy, as the Sunderland Echo belongs to the same publishing group and does not appear to be as restricted.

[Shepherd]

Given whats going on in the town and the posts on here, that's probably solid thinking on their part