| The Newbury Weekly News | |
| Type: | Weekly newspaper |
| Format: | Tabloid |
| Foundation: | 1867 |
| Owners: | Newbury News and Media Limited |
| Headquarters: | Newspaper House Faraday Road Newbury Berkshire RG14 2DW |
| Editor: | Andy Murrill |
| Website: | www.newburytoday.co.uk |
| Circulation: | 6,824 |
| Circulation Date: | 2022 |
| Circulation Ref: | [1] |
| Oclc: | 500150445 |
| Issn: | 0961-9739 |
The Newbury Weekly News is an English local weekly newspaper, covering Newbury and West Berkshire. The paper's website is known as Newbury Today.[2] It is published by the Newbury Weekly News Group.
The Newbury Weekly News featured in a short Central Office of Information film in 1952, titled "Local Newspaper".
The newspaper was first published in 1867 by Walter Blacket and Thomas Wheildon Turner.[3] It has been independently and family-owned since its establishment, with Blacket Turner & Co being formed in the 1980s.[4]
The paper celebrated its 150th anniversary in February 2017 with a special edition including a reprint of the first Newbury Weekly News newspaper.[5] [6]
On 1 May 2019, the paper was sold to Iliffe Media Group.
The newspaper's catchment covers an area of 300mi2 and a population of around 150,000. In the company's certificate of circulation (circulation published in February 2016 by the Audit Bureau of Circulations), the average circulation per issue was 13,810.[7]
In 2006, the newspaper won The Newspaper Society's Best Paid-For Weekly Newspaper award. The newspaper's website was voted Best Website Produced by a Weekly Newspaper.[8]
In 2007, Newbury Today was named the Picture Editors’ Newspaper Website of the Year, an award it shared with The Sun.[9]
In 2019, Newbury Weekly News won the Society of Editor’s Regional Press Awards Best paid for weekly newspaper (circulation above 10000) category. [10] A NWN photographer was also shortlisted for the Weekly Photographer of the Year at the event.