The ''Shrewsbury Chronicle'' is a
local news newspaper in
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury ( , also ) is a market town, civil parish, and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, north-west of London; at the 2021 census, it had a population of 76,782. The town's name can be pronounced as either 'Sh ...
,
Shropshire
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,
England
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. It is one of the oldest
weekly newspaper
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s in the
United Kingdom
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, publishing its first edition in 1772.
It is printed on Wednesday evening and is on sale or distributed on Thursday. It covers
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury ( , also ) is a market town, civil parish, and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, north-west of London; at the 2021 census, it had a population of 76,782. The town's name can be pronounced as either 'Sh ...
and the surrounding area, including
Church Stretton.
The editor of the ''Shrewsbury Chronicle'' is Caroline Jones, who took over from Leon Burakowski in 2020. The newspaper is published by the independently owned
Midland News Association
Midland News Association (also known as MNA Media) is Britain’s largest independent regional news company. It publishes the UK's biggest-selling regional daily newspaper the '' Express & Star'' and its sister title the ''Shropshire Star'', as ...
.
History
Founded by Thomas Wood, a drapery salesman-turned-printer who had been a partner in the ''Birmingham Chronicle'' newspaper, the ''Shrewsbury Chronicle'' was first published on Monday 23 November 1772.
[Bi-Centenary Souvenir.] It was then titled ''The Shrewsbury Chronicle, or Wood's British Commercial Pamphlet''
[Illustration of first front page.] and eight pages long.
Following Wood's death in 1801, his widow Mary (''nee'' Horlick) carried on the paper until her own death in 1808, making her "one of the earliest, if not the earliest, of women newspaper proprietors".
In the 1830s the paper, under the editorship of John Watton, supported the
Whigs.
The paper covered national, international and local news, with advertisements alone on its front page until February 1953 when major Shropshire-interest news stories began being carried on it.
The paper came out as a daily paper for just under a fortnight during the
General Strike of 1926
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Over the centuries the paper has had many different offices and printing works around Shrewsbury, apart from a period between 1916 and 1927 when printing was done at
when the works, then in Castle Foregate, was flooded.
It is now based in Abbey Foregate.
In 2004 circulation was over 19,000, the highest for 20 years.
In 2008 the paper's circulation was 14,015.
The paper was awarded Best Campaigning Newspaper in Great Britain 2005 by the Newspaper Society.
, as was its fundraising.