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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ee/Shrewsbury_Chronicle_logo.jpg/200px-Shrewsbury_Chronicle_logo.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="36" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ee/Shrewsbury_Chronicle_logo.jpg/300px-Shrewsbury_Chronicle_logo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ee/Shrewsbury_Chronicle_logo.jpg/400px-Shrewsbury_Chronicle_logo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="745" data-file-height="134" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Weekly_newspaper" title="Weekly newspaper">Weekly newspaper</a><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">Owner(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Midland_News_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Midland News Association">Midland News Association</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Editor</th><td class="infobox-data agent">Caroline Jones</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">23 November 1772</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label">7 Bellstone,<br />Shrewsbury,<br /> SY1 1HU</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">25,521 (as of 2022)<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></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://shrewsburychronicle.com/">shrewsburychronicle.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <i><b>Shrewsbury Chronicle</b></i> is a <a href="/wiki/Local_news" title="Local news">local news</a> newspaper in <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury" title="Shrewsbury">Shrewsbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire">Shropshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>. It is one of the oldest <a href="/wiki/Weekly_newspaper" title="Weekly newspaper">weekly newspapers</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, publishing its first edition in 1772.<sup id="cite_ref-Spectator_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Spectator-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is printed on Wednesday evening and is on sale or distributed on Thursday. It covers <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury" title="Shrewsbury">Shrewsbury</a> and the surrounding area, including <a href="/wiki/Church_Stretton" title="Church Stretton">Church Stretton</a>. </p><p>The editor of the <i>Shrewsbury Chronicle</i> is Caroline Jones, who took over from Leon Burakowski in 2020. The newspaper is published by the independently owned <a href="/wiki/Midland_News_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Midland News Association">Midland News Association</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-HFP_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HFP-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shrewsbury_Chronicle&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Founded by Thomas Wood, a drapery salesman-turned-printer who had been a partner in the <i>Birmingham Chronicle</i> newspaper, the <i>Shrewsbury Chronicle</i> was first published on Monday 23 November 1772.<sup id="cite_ref-t9r8_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-t9r8-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was then titled <i>The Shrewsbury Chronicle, or Wood's British Commercial Pamphlet</i><sup id="cite_ref-t9r_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-t9r-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and eight pages long.<sup id="cite_ref-t9r8_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-t9r8-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following Wood's death in 1801, his widow Mary (<i>nee</i> Horlick) carried on the paper until her own death in 1808, making her "one of the earliest, if not the earliest, of women newspaper proprietors".<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-t9r5_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-t9r5-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1830s the paper, under the editorship of John Watton, supported the <a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whigs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Page1979_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Page1979-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Black2010_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Black2010-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The paper covered national, international and local news, with advertisements alone on its front page until February 1953 when major Shropshire-interest news stories began being carried on it.<sup id="cite_ref-t9r6_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-t9r6-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The paper came out as a daily paper for just under a fortnight during the <a href="/wiki/General_Strike_of_1926" class="mw-redirect" title="General Strike of 1926">General Strike of 1926</a>, its contents largely taken from <a href="/wiki/British_Broadcasting_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="British Broadcasting Corporation">BBC</a> bulletins.<sup id="cite_ref-t9r2_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-t9r2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Over the centuries the paper has had many different offices and printing works around Shrewsbury, apart from a period between 1916 and 1927 when printing was done at <a href="/wiki/Newport,_Shropshire" title="Newport, Shropshire">Newport</a> because of structural defects pending a rebuild,<sup id="cite_ref-t9r3_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-t9r3-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later, several times, printing had to be done in <a href="/wiki/Walsall" title="Walsall">Walsall</a> when the works, then in Castle Foregate, was flooded.<sup id="cite_ref-t9r7_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-t9r7-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is now based in Abbey Foregate. </p><p>In 2004 circulation was over 19,000, the highest for 20 years.<sup id="cite_ref-NA_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NA-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (October 2018)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In 2008 the paper's circulation was 14,015.<sup id="cite_ref-PG_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PG-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The paper was awarded Best Campaigning Newspaper in Great Britain 2005 by the Newspaper Society.<sup id="cite_ref-NA_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NA-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (October 2018)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In 2009, its campaigning on local issues was noted by the Shrewsbury MP, <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Kawczynski" title="Daniel Kawczynski">Daniel Kawczynski</a>, as was its fundraising.<sup id="cite_ref-Hansard_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hansard-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup>[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 2009 the paper moved to a part-free, part-paid model, with some copies free and others for sale.<sup id="cite_ref-PG_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PG-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_Journalists_and_Contributors">Notable Journalists and Contributors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shrewsbury_Chronicle&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Notable Journalists and Contributors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Essayist <a href="/wiki/William_Hazlitt" title="William Hazlitt">William Hazlitt</a>'s first published work, when a 13-year-old student, was a letter to the <i>Chronicle</i>, printed in July 1791, condemning the <a href="/wiki/Priestley_Riots" title="Priestley Riots">riots in Birmingham</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Henry_Lucy" title="Henry Lucy">Henry Lucy</a>, later known as a political journalist under pen-name "Toby, M.P.", was chief reporter at the <i>Chronicle</i> in 1864.<sup id="cite_ref-Matthews2017_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Matthews2017-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shropshire author <a href="/wiki/Mary_Webb" title="Mary Webb">Mary Webb</a>'s first published work was a five-verse poem carried by the paper, written on hearing news of the <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_rail_accident" title="Shrewsbury rail accident">Shrewsbury rail accident</a> in 1907. Her brother gave it to the <i>Chronicle</i> without telling Webb, and the paper printed it anonymously.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (October 2018)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Fyfe_Robertson" title="Fyfe Robertson">Fyfe Robertson</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scots</a> broadcaster, was briefly a trainee reporter with the <i>Chronicle</i> in 1921.<sup id="cite_ref-t9r2_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-t9r2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (October 2018)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shrewsbury_Chronicle&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Star" title="Shropshire Star">Shropshire Star</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midland_News_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Midland News Association">Midland News Association</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shrewsbury_Chronicle&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/tag/shrewsbury-chronicle/">"Shrewsbury Chronicle - UK media directory from"</a>. 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