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The ''Nottingham Post'' (formerly the ''Nottingham Evening Post'') is an English
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which serves
Nottingham Nottingham ( , locally ) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robi ...
,
Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The trad ...
and parts of
Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...
,
Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire ...
and
Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-we ...
. The ''Post'' is published Monday to Saturday each week, and was also available via online subscription until 10 March 2020. It was formerly “Campaigning Newspaper of the Year”. In the first six months of 2018 the paper had a daily circulation of 14,814, down 14% on the same period in 2017. Occasionally the newspaper includes special features which focus on a particular aspect of life in Nottingham. An example of this was the paper’s ''Muslims in Nottingham'' series in April 2007. This consisted of a week-long series of interviews and articles in both the newspaper and on the ''Evening Post'' website. They focused on Nottingham’s Muslim community, giving its members the opportunity to express their views of life in the city.


History

The first edition of ''The Evening Post'' was printed by Thomas Forman on 1 May 1878. It sold for ½d and consisted of four pages. In July 1963, the ''Post''s main competitor, the ''Nottingham Evening News'', closed and merged with the ''Post''. Also, the city’s two morning papers, the ''Nottingham Guardian'' and the ''
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'', were merged into ''The Guardian Journal''. On 19 June 1973, a printing dispute began, causing a period of industrial turmoil in the company, and ''The Guardian Journal'' ceased publication on that day. During the protracted dispute, some ''Post'' journalists launched their own newspaper, receiving moral support from
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, then manager of Nottingham Forest. Eventually, as the only remaining newspaper was the ''Nottingham Evening Post'', which increasingly covered the whole day’s news, it was re-named the ''Nottingham Post'' from the beginning of July 2010. One of the ''Post''s stalwart journalists, Emrys Bryson, wrote a revue about Nottingham life called ''Owd Yer Tight'', which ran at Nottingham's Theatre Royal. The ''Post''s sister paper, the ''Nottinghamshire Weekly Guardian'', published
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's first short story. In March 1996 the ''Post'' was relaunched as a full-colour tabloid, although the Saturday edition had switched to the smaller paper size as far back as 1982. The ''Post'' was based at offices on Forman Street in the centre of Nottingham until 1998 when the paper relocated to Castle Wharf House. It moved to Tollhouse Hill in the city centre in 2012. In October 2011 printing moved from
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. In 2012, Local World acquired the paper's owner Northcliffe Media from
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Other publications

As well as the main newspaper, the ''Post'' also published a weekly sports paper on a Saturday throughout the football season, ''The Football Post'' (no longer published) which included coverage of the two local
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clubs, Nottingham Forest and Notts County, as well as coverage of local non-league football,
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,
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and
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. In addition to this, the ''Post'' also previously published ''Forest Fever'', a weekly newspaper-style magazine dedicated to Nottingham Forest Football Club. Its weekly in-depth look at events at the City Ground featured interviews with players, former players, management and supporters. There is also a monthly ''Bygones'' paper (no longer published as a separate publication), which publishes features and stories on the history of Nottingham.


Contributors

Over the years, several ''Post'' journalists moved to Fleet Street. Among them were Robert Bolton of '' The Sun'', Robert Stephens of the ''
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'' and John Marquis of
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, who later went on to become an author and editor of the
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’ best-selling daily, ''The Tribune''. Marquis was also voted Provincial Journalist of the Year in the 1974 National Press Awards (now
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) and was for many years London Sports Editor and Chief Boxing Correspondent of the Thomson newspaper empire, covering many Mumammad Ali fights. The late political sketchwriter Frank Johnson (''
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'' and ''
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'') was briefly a ''Post'' journalist, while the music and sports writer Richard Williams trained on the ''Post'' in the 1960s. Another ''Post'' reporter, BBC regional broadcaster John Barsby, became president of the National Union of Journalists. Among the ''Post''s more illustrious journalists of recent times was Duncan Hamilton, whose book about Brian Clough (''Provided You Don't Kiss Me'') was described by TV commentator
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as “one of the best football books I’ve ever read.” After 20 years on the Post, Hamilton became deputy editor of the ''
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''. Well-known regional broadcaster Colin Slater was another ''Post'' stalwart, covering Notts County for many years. Nottingham born broadcaster, writer, humourist and film maker Steve Oliver wrote as a critic for the paper between 2011 and 2017. In April 2013, Mike Sassi was appointed the editor. One of its longest-serving editors in recent times was Barrie Williams, who served for 14 years before becoming editor of the ''
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'' in
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. In January 2020, Natalie Fahy was appointed editor of the Nottingham Post. As of March 2022, the newspaper's owner, Reach PLC, closed the Post's City Gate offices, meaning that the Nottingham Post's remaining journalists all work from home and the company no longer has a newsroom base in the East Midlands.


References

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