The Northern Echo Cuts Back Output

Every morning the paperman pushes The Northern Echo through our letterbox. It's a good paper, with coverage of national and local stories. It covers a big patch, but up until now it has produced several geographic editions. We get the North Yorkshire one which includes lots of stories from close to home.

Hold The Front Page report that the Echo plans to cut back from five editions to one, which sounds like we'll be hearing more about what's going on to the north of Durham. The changes will take place at the end of June, and HTFP say that up to nineteen posts will close.

The paper is owned by Newsquest, and earlier today Roy Greenslade wrote in his Guardian blog about another Newsquest title, The South Wales Argus recruiting "citizen reporters."

Local journalism is under the cosh at the moment, with trends like this and ITV's plans to reduce the number of regional news programmes they make at six o'clock each evening.

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