Ayrshire Post

Ayrshire Post
Type Weekly
Format Local
Owner(s) Trinity Mirror
Editor Kenny Smith[1]
Founded 1880
Headquarters Ayr, Scotland
Website http://www.ayrshirepost.net/

The Ayrshire Post is a weekly Scottish local newspaper serving the communities of South Ayrshire and parts of East Ayrshire with local news, issues and sports coverage. The Ayrshire Post primarily serves the towns of Ayr, Prestwick, Troon, Cumnock, Maybole, Girvan and their surrounding communities. The Ayrshire Post was founded in 1880 as a voice of Liberalism, in direct competition to existing Tory rival the Ayr Advertiser and the now defunct Ayr Observer and the more radical Ayrshire Express.

The title was judged Scottish Weekly Newspaper of the Year in 2014 at the Scottish Press Awards.[2] It was the first time an Ayrshire newspaper has won the award.

There are separate editions for Troon[3] and the district of Carrick,[4]which includes communities centered around Maybole and Girvan.

The paper is owned by the Trinity Mirror Group and is the biggest selling weekly title within the Media Scotland stable. As of 2012, it had a circulation of 20,000, approximately the same as in 1939[5] and a 10% decline[6] from 2011's circulation of 23,493.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "New editor for daily as newspaper's top two move on". 27 July 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  2. ↑ "Daily Record and Sunday Mail win five coveted gongs at Scottish Press Awards". 24 April 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "Ayrshire Post's Troon edition - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage". HoldTheFrontPage. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  4. ↑ Turvill, William. "Trinity Mirror launches new Troon edition of Ayrshire Post". Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  5. ↑ MacDougall, Ian (7 November 2013). Voices of Scottish Journalists: Recollections of 22 Scottish Journalists of Their Life and Work (Google eBook). Google eBook. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  6. ↑ "Sharp fall in city evening newspaper sales". 29 August 2012. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "ABC figures: How the UK's weekly newspapers fared". 23 February 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2015.


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