Recent Events
Today, The Northern Echo is owned by Newsquest (Yorkshire and North East) Ltd. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations during the second half of 2010, The Northern Echo sold on average approximately 42,000 copies daily. It has four editions, covering County Durham, South Durham, Tees Valley and North Yorkshire and Darlington. In June 2008, the newspaper announced it would reduce the number of editions to two.
Although traditionally a broadsheet, since 26 February 2007 the newspaper has been published in a tabloid format. The newspaper transformed itself from a broadsheet to a tabloid in a one-year transition process, beginning with Saturday editions on 14 January 2006.
The Northern Echo has a number of sister publications, including the weekly Darlington & Stockton Times and the free Advertiser series.
In June 2011, the department store Debenhams confirmed that it is to take over The Northern Echo’s town centre offices in Darlington - ending the paper’s 140-year link to the site. The 62,000sq ft department store is due to open by autumn 2014. The existing building was created when the site was redeveloped in 1916. New premises for the newspaper have not yet been confirmed.
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