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Yorkshire daily papers’ print collapse continues on schedule

Posted on August 30, 2017 by the leeds citizen

Print sales of Yorkshire’s regional daily papers have continued their collapse, according to figures released last week by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. Nothing too remarkable: the Yorkshire Evening Post (YEP) leads the latest slide with one of the biggest … Continue reading →

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Sad milestone – sales of Yorkshire Evening Post drop below 20,000 for first time

Posted on February 24, 2016 by the leeds citizen

No great surprises for Yorkshire’s daily papers in the figures released today by the Audit Bureau of Circulation: the steady slide in sales continued during the second half of 2015. It’s a sort of sad milestone for Johnston Press (an expected one, … Continue reading →

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Bad news, good news, data and the Leeds housing crisis

Posted on October 26, 2015 by the leeds citizen

I’m a big fan of the Yorkshire Evening Post, but I’m struggling with its front page “exclusive” news story this morning. Yes, yes, there’s a housing crisis in Leeds. And yes, “it’s time to end it”. And yes, as the paper … Continue reading →

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More poor results for Leeds local newspapers. How and when will it end?

Posted on August 27, 2015 by the leeds citizen

It’s grim news. Again. For both The Yorkshire Post and sister paper The Yorkshire Evening Post. We already knew that parent company Johnston Press had a dismal first half of 2015 – shares tumbled when a profit warning was issued … Continue reading →

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Steady online growth for Leeds-based local papers … BUT

Posted on February 27, 2015 by the leeds citizen

After Wednesday’s not so good news about continuing declining sales of our local regional daily papers, here’s the better news about their growing online audiences. Just about all of them posted steady year on year increases in online readership in the … Continue reading →

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Big fall in sales again at Yorkshire Evening Post

Posted on February 25, 2015 by the leeds citizen

Pretty bad news for the Yorkshire Evening Post from the latest circulation figures for regional daily papers released today by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The paper has recorded one of the highest percentage falls in average daily circulation, down 15.7% from … Continue reading →

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Yorkshire Evening Post to be relaunched … again

Posted on October 2, 2014 by the leeds citizen

The Yorkshire Evening Post is going to be relaunched again, two years after its last relaunch. The paper got a new look and a number of new supplements in January 2013 in an effort to make it “brighter and fresher” … Continue reading →

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Sales down again, web traffic up: how long have Yorkshire’s daily papers got?

Posted on August 29, 2014 by the leeds citizen

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: sales of all of Yorkshire’s daily newspapers continued to fall in the first half of this year while web traffic was way up. It’s such a familiar story that you can copy … Continue reading →

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#LEEDS1914 People reading too much fiction, watching too much football, says city librarian

Posted on March 17, 2014 by the leeds citizen

(Leeds, early March, 1914) People in Leeds are taking less fiction out of the public libraries, but they’re still reading too much of it. That’s the view of City Librarian T. W. Hand in an interview with the Yorkshire Evening … Continue reading →

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Yorkshire papers showing steady online growth

Posted on February 27, 2014 by the leeds citizen

Good news on the digital front for Yorkshire’s newspapers to temper yesterday’s continuing bad news about their hard copy sales: latest figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulation show all of them posting healthy increases in their online readership. … Continue reading →

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