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class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">Daily <a href="/wiki/Newspaper" title="Newspaper">newspaper</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Format</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tabloid_(newspaper_format)" title="Tabloid (newspaper format)">Tabloid</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Local_World" title="Local World">Local World</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Editor</th><td class="infobox-data agent">Gavin Thompson</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Staff writers</th><td class="infobox-data">6-8 approx</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1858</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political alignment</th><td class="infobox-data">not stated</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Bristol" title="Bristol">Temple Way, Bristol</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Newspaper_circulation" class="mw-redirect" title="Newspaper circulation">Circulation</a></th><td class="infobox-data">6,095 (as of 2022)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/">somersetlive.co.uk</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <i><b>Western Daily Press</b></i> is a regional newspaper covering parts of <a href="/wiki/South_West_England" title="South West England">South West England</a>, mainly <a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire" title="Gloucestershire">Gloucestershire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wiltshire" title="Wiltshire">Wiltshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Somerset" title="Somerset">Somerset</a> as well as the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_area" title="Metropolitan area">metropolitan</a> areas of <a href="/wiki/Bath_and_North_East_Somerset" title="Bath and North East Somerset">Bath and North East Somerset</a> and the Bristol area. It is published Monday to Saturday in <a href="/wiki/Bristol" title="Bristol">Bristol</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">UK</a>. The majority of its readers are in <a href="/wiki/Rural" class="mw-redirect" title="Rural">rural</a> areas, small towns and villages throughout the region and the paper's coverage of rural, <a href="/wiki/Agricultural" class="mw-redirect" title="Agricultural">agricultural</a> and <a href="/wiki/Countryside" class="mw-redirect" title="Countryside">countryside</a> issues is particularly strong. It also has a good record in picking up quirky and bizarre stories which would otherwise not be publicized. Politically it tends to be <a href="/wiki/Conservatism" title="Conservatism">conservative</a> although its coverage of the UK ban on <a href="/wiki/Fox_hunting" title="Fox hunting">fox hunting</a> was neutral, recognizing that even in rural areas people are very divided on the issue. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Founding">Founding</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Western_Daily_Press&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Founding"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It was founded by Scottish businessman <a href="/wiki/Peter_Stewart_Macliver" title="Peter Stewart Macliver">Peter Stewart Macliver</a> and <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_upon_Tyne" title="Newcastle upon Tyne">Newcastle</a> <a href="/wiki/Journalist" title="Journalist">journalist</a> Walter Reid and first published on 1 June 1858. Macliver went on to found the <i><a href="/wiki/Bristol_Observer" title="Bristol Observer">Bristol Observer</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Twentieth_century">Twentieth century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Western_Daily_Press&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Twentieth century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>Western Daily</i> was bought by Bristol United Press (BUP), the same company which publishes the <i><a href="/wiki/Bristol_Evening_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Bristol Evening Post">Bristol Evening Post</a></i>, in 1960 and since 1974 has been based at the company's building in Temple Way.<sup id="cite_ref-britnewsonline_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britnewsonline-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> BUP was bought in 1999 by the <a href="/wiki/Daily_Mail_and_General_Trust" title="Daily Mail and General Trust">Daily Mail and General Trust</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Media_conglomerate" title="Media conglomerate">media conglomerate</a> which also publishes mass-circulation UK <a href="/wiki/Tabloid_(newspaper_format)" title="Tabloid (newspaper format)">tabloid</a> the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Mail" title="Daily Mail">Daily Mail</a></i> and became part of its Northcliffe Group of regional newspapers,<sup id="cite_ref-britnewsonline_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britnewsonline-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> DMGT previously having owned a minority shareholding. As with most UK titles, the <i>Western Daily Press</i> has been fighting declining <a href="/wiki/Newspaper_circulation" class="mw-redirect" title="Newspaper circulation">newspaper circulation</a> figures in recent years and now sells fewer than 15,000 copies per day.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is a particular problem for the <i>Western Daily Press</i> since its circulation area is very wide and costs of distributing papers and maintaining local journalists are disproportionately high. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Twenty-first_century">Twenty-first century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Western_Daily_Press&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Twenty-first century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2005 a number of staff were laid off at BUP titles, with management trying to achieve economies through sharing of resources between the different papers. This prompted some <i>Western Daily Press</i> journalists to attempt to auction themselves on <a href="/wiki/EBay" title="EBay">eBay</a> as a joke.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/National_Union_of_Journalists" title="National Union of Journalists">National Union of Journalists</a> has been highly critical of these cuts and is particularly active in Bristol; the union says that despite declining circulation the newspapers remain extremely <a href="/wiki/Profit_(accounting)" title="Profit (accounting)">profitable</a>, partly due to <a href="/wiki/Advertising" title="Advertising">advertising</a> revenue, and that the economies are being driven by the unrealistic expectations of <a href="/wiki/Shareholders" class="mw-redirect" title="Shareholders">shareholders</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Staff">Staff</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Western_Daily_Press&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Staff"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The current editor is Gavin Thompson, succeeding Rob Stokes<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Previously Tim Dixon was editor from 2010 to 2014,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Andy Wright before him. The newspaper is put together by a small team of multi-skilled journalists known as content editors, working alongside the editor, and a small team of district reporters. The playwright <a href="/wiki/Tom_Stoppard" title="Tom Stoppard">Tom Stoppard</a> started his career as a journalist on the <i>Western Daily Press</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and other famous names who have worked for the paper include Sir <a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Printing_and_distribution">Printing and distribution</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Western_Daily_Press&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Printing and distribution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In May 2009 it was announced that printing of the Press, and sister paper the <i><a href="/wiki/Bristol_Evening_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Bristol Evening Post">Bristol Evening Post</a></i> would be moved to <a href="/wiki/Didcot" title="Didcot">Didcot</a> in <a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire" title="Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a>, though the editorial departments are still based in Bristol. </p><p>This has led to some distribution timing difficulties owing to the aforementioned wide circulation area and, consequently, supplies to the far South West of the UK have now ceased.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In April 2010, it was announced that the editing and sub-editing of the Press would be undertaken in <a href="/wiki/Plymouth" title="Plymouth">Plymouth</a> and that the publication would undergo a revamp to make it similar in appearance to the <i><a href="/wiki/Western_Morning_News" title="Western Morning News">Western Morning News</a></i> which is also edited and sub-edited out of Plymouth. 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