Reading Chronicle

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This article is about a UK newspaper. For the newspaper in Reading, Massachusetts, see Daily Times Chronicle.

The Reading Chronicle is an English local weekly newspaper covering Reading and surrounding areas.

The paper is published each Thursday with two distinct geographical editions; the Reading Chronicle itself, and the Woodley and Earley Chronicle. Each edition has some local content relating to its target area, but much of the content is common. The paper is published with a broadsheet main section plus several supplements, inclduing a tabloid entertainments magazine, and the Property Chronicle. The paper costs 55p.

The paper covers an area extending to Goring-on-Thames to the north, Bucklebury to the west, Mortimer to the south and Twyford and Winnersh to the east. It is edited by Sally Stevens, and the news editor is Maurice O'Brien.

The Reading Chronicle is published by Berkshire Media Group (BMG), who bought the title off Trinity Mirror in summer 2007. BMG also publish the Newbury and Thatcham Chronicle, the Bracknell News, the Slough Express and several free newspapers. The group is a subsidiary of Clyde and Forth Press, an independent newspaper company headed by Deirdre Romanes, based in Dunfermline, Fife.

[edit] Polish edition

On 12 October 2006 the Chronicle was accompanied by a 6-page Polish edition, titled Kronika Reading, because of its success it has now become a permanent fixture in Reading.