Croydon Advertiser
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The Croydon Advertiser (with locally-branded editions) is a weekly newspaper covering the London Borough of Croydon, South London, and surrounding areas. It is the third-highest selling paid-for weekly paper in London. [1] The Advertiser is Croydon's major paid-for weekly newspaper and is on sale every Friday in five geographical editions: Croydon; Sutton & Epsom; Coulsdon & Purley; New Addington; and Caterham.[2] Each edition has pages concentrating on local news and information from that specific area.
The Croydon newspaper was founded by Jesse Ward in 1869[3], and it and the other Advertiser publications are now part of the Trinity Mirror Group[2], which also owns the Daily Mirror and is the largest newspaper publisher in the United Kingdom.[4] The paper converted to a from a broadsheet to a compact (tabloid) format on 31 March 2006.
[edit] References
- ^ Newspaper Society London circulation tables, Jul-Dec 2005 accessed 2006-08-09
- ^ a b Trinity Mirror Southern series description accessed 2006-08-09
- ^ Newspaper History at Ash Rare Books, accessed 2006-08-14.
- ^ Trinity Mirror Group accessed 2006-08-09
