''The Star'', often known as the ''Sheffield Star'', is a daily

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published in

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, from Monday to Saturday each week. Originally a broadsheet, the newspaper became a

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in 1993. ''The Star'', the weekly '' Sheffield Telegraph'' and the ''

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'' are published by Sheffield Newspapers Ltd (owned by

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), based at The Balance in Pinfold Street in

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''History''

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, North

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and North

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and reaches its readers through its main edition and district edition for

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. The

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and Barnsley district editions closed in 2008. The total average issue readership for ''The Star'' is 105,498. High Street, Sheffield

The newspaper which subsequently became ''The Star'' began as the ''Sheffield Evening Telegraph'', the first edition of which was published on 7 June 1887. It soon took over its only local rival, the ''Sheffield Evening Star'', and from June 1888 to December 1897 it was known as the ''Evening Telegraph and Star and Sheffield Daily Times'', then from 1898 to October 1937 as the ''Yorkshire Telegraph and Star''. In 1931, it took over the ''Sheffield Mail'', which had been its main rival since 1920. From 1937 to November 1938, the newspaper became the ''Telegraph & Star'', and finally, from 14 November 1938 was known as ''The Star''. In April 1989, the newspaper published false reports about the

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semi-final tie. It claimed that the key factor of the tragedy was the drunkenness of Liverpool fans. These claims were met with outrage by Liverpool fans, particularly when it was established that police loss of crowd control and the presence of perimeter fencing between the stands and the pitch were the key factors in the tragedy, although '' The Sun'' caused the most offence for its reporting on the event.

Current operations

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began printing ''The Star'' at their new £60 million printing plant in Dinnington, near Rotherham, in September 2006. The plant includes the first 'triple width' newspaper press in the UK. The plant also prints several other Johnston Press titles, including the ''Sheffield Telegraph'', ''Scarborough Evening News'', ''Wakefield Express'', ''

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'', and ''Chesterfield Advertiser'', and a number of external publications, including '' The Sun'' and (for several years) the ''

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'' for

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. In March 2011, ''The Star'' sports columnist and Features Editor Martin Smith received a top national award at the British Sports Journalism Awards. He was named Regional Sports Writer of the Year, for the third time in eight years, by the Sports Journalists' Association. Nancy Fielder was made the editor of ''The Star'' in April 2016. James Mitchinson, Jeremy Clifford and John Furbisher held the position previously after Alan Powell retired in 2010.

References

Bibliography

*Bob Horton, ''Living in Sheffield: 1000 years of change''

External links

Sheffield Today (The Star Online)
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