The ''Newham Recorder'' is a local weekly

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distributed in the

London Borough of Newham The London Borough of Newham is a London borough created in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963. It covers an area previously administered by the Essex county boroughs of West Ham and East Ham, authorities that were both abolished by the s ...

. It is published weekly, on a Wednesday, in the

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format by

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 ...

, the UK's largest independently owned regional media business, with a digital edition updated throughout the day.

History

The newspaper was founded in 1968, three years after the county boroughs of

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and

East Ham East Ham is a district of the London Borough of Newham, England, 8 miles (12.8 km) east of Charing Cross. East Ham is identified in the London Plan as a Major Centre. The population is 76,186. It was originally part of the hundred o ...

- both of which had previously been part of

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- were combined to form the new

. Prior to that, since the early 1900s the area had been served by the ''East Ham Recorder'', a slip edition of the ''

Ilford Recorder 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 ...

''. The ''Recorder'' won the title of National Campaigning Newspaper of the year in 1995. The ''Newham Recorder''s Susan Smith won ''Feature Writer of the Year'' at the ''Eastern Counties Newspaper Group awards'' in 2007. The Newham title also won the Q Cup, awarded by Archant to its Community Newspaper of the Year in 2009. Archant withdrew the ''Newham Recorder'', along with several other newspapers in its stable, from the ABC circulation figures in 2010 because it felt they didn't properly reflect its size in view of the variety of distribution channels used, with only part being paid for. The newspaper received praise from the police for its coverage of the rioting and criminal disorder of August 2011.

Editorial history

The newspaper has had only five editors. The first, Tom Duncan, was made a freeman of Newham in recognition of his work in the community. The second, from 1997, was Colin Grainger who joined as a trainee reporter upon leaving a local school in 1972. Grainger left in November 2012 after Archant merged the ''Recorder''s news team with that of the '' Docklands & East London Advertiser''. Both weeklies were then controlled by one single editor, Archant's East London Group Editor Malcolm Starbrook. The two papers were "un-merged" in 2014 and the ''Newham Recorder'' acquired a new editor, Michael Adkins. In 2017 Lorraine King became the paper's new editor after Adkins was promoted to Archant's Group Editor for London.

References

London newspapers Media and communications in the London Borough of Newham Weekly newspapers published in the United Kingdom Publications established in 1968 1968 establishments in England {{England-newspaper-stub