The ''North Norfolk News'' is a weekly newspaper serving part of
Norfolk
Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...
, England. Towns and villages it covers include
Cromer
Cromer ( ) is a coastal town and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk. It is north of Norwich, north-northeast of London and east of Sheringham on the North Sea coastline.
The local government authorities are Nor ...
,
Sheringham
Sheringham (; population 7,367) is an English seaside town within the county of Norfolk, United Kingdom.Ordnance Survey (2002). ''OS Explorer Map 252 - Norfolk Coast East''. . The motto of the town, granted in 1953 to the Sheringham Urban Distr ...
,
North Walsham
North Walsham is a market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England, within the North Norfolk district.
Demography
The civil parish has an area of and in the 2011 census had a population of 12,634. For the purposes of local government, the pa ...
,
Aylsham
Aylsham ( or ) is a historic market town and civil parish on the River Bure in north Norfolk, England, nearly north of Norwich. The river rises near Melton Constable, upstream from Aylsham and continues to Great Yarmouth and the North Sea, ...
,
Holt
Holt or holte may refer to:
Natural world
*Holt (den), an otter den
* Holt, an area of woodland
Places Australia
* Holt, Australian Capital Territory
* Division of Holt, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives in Vic ...
,
Stalham
Stalham is a market town and civil parish on the River Ant in the English county of Norfolk, in East Anglia. It covers an area of and had a population of 2,951 in 1,333 households at the 2001 census, the population increasing to 3,149 at the 20 ...
,
Wells-next-the-Sea
Wells-next-the-Sea is a port town on the north coast of Norfolk, England.
The civil parish has an area of and in 2001 had a population of 2,451,Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household c ...
,
Reepham,
Hoveton
Hoveton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is located within the Norfolk Broads, and immediately across the River Bure from the village of Wroxham. Whilst Hoveton is north of the river, Wroxham is south; but many ...
and
Wroxham
Wroxham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The civil parish of Wroxham has an area of 6.21 square kilometres, and in 2001, had a population of 1,532 in 666 households. A reduced population of 1,502 in 653 households ...
. It is published by the
Archant
Archant Limited is a newspaper and magazine publishing company headquartered in Norwich, England. The group publishes four daily newspapers, around 50 weekly newspapers, and 80 consumer and contract magazines.
Archant employs around 1,250 empl ...
group on Thursdays, and its website is updated several times every day.
The North Norfolk News was established in 1940. Its staff members work remotely around north Norfolk, as well as at the Archant head office in Norwich, following the closure of the firm's Cromer office in 2019. It was shortlisted for best paid-for UK weekly newspaper for 2013.
Contents
Its content includes a mix of news, features, a guide to upcoming events and sport. Many of the stories it runs are also published in its sister daily newspaper, the
Eastern Daily Press
The ''Eastern Daily Press'' (''EDP'') is a regional newspaper covering Norfolk, northern parts of Suffolk and eastern Cambridgeshire, and is published daily in Norwich, UK.
Founded in 1870 as a broadsheet called the ''Eastern Counties Daily ...
.
Some elements have disappeared or been replaced by others over the years. In the 1960s the paper ran a ‘Thass a Larf’ column, which no longer exists.
From 2017 to 2020 the paper ran a weekly Enjoy Cromer More page focusing on positive news from that town.
Although the feature has not run in the print edition since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Enjoy Cromer More continues to exist as a separate website and on social media channels.
Other areas of coverage have stayed more or less the same for decades. Upcoming things to do, investment in car parks and refurbishments of town pubs were all covered as topics of local interest 40 years ago, just as they are today.
Some areas of coverage can be considered particular to the coastal nature of the region, including summer carnivals at busy seaside towns, such as Cromer Carnival, and devastating storm surges.
Audience
An average 3,656 paid copies were sold weekly in 2019, and the newspaper has an average print readership of 15,468.
The audited weekly sales figure for January to June 2012 was 6,619.
Its website is said to have 142,652 monthly users.
According to ABC figures the newspaper had the highest online growth for any UK newspaper in February 2019, when it recorded a 72% increase in the number of daily unique average browsers to visit its site compared to year-end figures for 2017 and 2018.
References
{{Reflist
Newspapers published in Norfolk
North Norfolk