Tameside Advertiser

Tameside Advertiser
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Trinity Mirror plc
EditorClaire Mooney
HeadquartersManchester, England
Circulation91,151 (Jul-Dec 2007)[1][needs update]
Websitetamesideadvertiser.co.uk

The Tameside Advertiser is a weekly newspaper which serves the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. It is owned by Trinity Mirror plc. The paper has a sister paper, The Glossop Advertiser which is also a freesheet but covers the bordering town of Glossop in Derbyshire. The main competitors to both papers are the Tameside Reporter and Glossop Chronicle which are both paid-for newspapers. The newspaper recently[when?] featured in the 'Rotten Boroughs' section of Private Eye magazine after the Department for Communities and Local Government produced the whitepaper 'Guidance for local authorities on community cohesion contingency planning and tension monitoring'.[2] The whitepaper revealed that:

"Tameside holds regular meetings with local newspaper editors to gather information and stop sensationalist reporting which might otherwise start or add to rising tensions, e.g. in response to a Kick Racism out of Football campaign, an extremist political group wanted to picket a local football stadium. A local newspaper was going to print the story on its front page – an action that was likely to bring unwanted publicity to the picket and fuel rising community tensions. The intervention of the Community Cohesion Partnership prevented the story from being run and in the event no-one turned out for the picket."

The editor was forced to respond to these allegations in Private Eye.[3]

In February 2010, the newspaper along with other local titles in the North of England and Surrey and Berkshire, including the Manchester Evening News were sold to Trinity Mirror plc.[4]

References

  1. ^ Tameside Advertiser (Thurs) Standard Certificate of Circulation, 02-Jul-2007 to 30-Dec-2007 Audit Bureau of Circulations
  2. ^ Hagen, Tom (16 October 2008). "Tameside (MBC's) Advertiser". Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  3. ^ Citizen, Tameside (4 November 2008). "Tameside Citizen: Tameside Advertiser's editor responds to Private Eye". Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  4. ^ "Manchester Evening News sold by Guardian Media Group". Manchester Evening News. 9 February 2010. Retrieved 9 February 2010.


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