Southport Reporter
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Southport Reporter, an online newspaper started by Patrick Trollope, is not only seen as a newspaper[1] but also as the UK's first online-only regional newspaper.[2] It was quickly recognised by the National Union of Journalists as well as other media groups,[3] authorities and organizations as a newspaper.[4] This recognition was due to the fact it was only run by certificated professional journalists (often the journalist held NUJ or IFJ ID/certification). As a result they had to follow and run under the rules of the UK Press Complaints Commission's Code of Practice[5] and the NUJ Code of Conduct.
The virtual newspaper's name was trademarked under the UK's Trade Mark Act 1994 Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as a newspaper, on 12 February 2002 under the registration No. 2292469.
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[edit] Development history
The idea started when Patrick Trollope[6] decided to use unpublished news as a single page on Formby Online over 1998 and 1999 after studying at Wolverhampton University.[7] By 1999 it had grown into a multi-page section and the name was by then being developed by Patrick Trollope. In 1999 the pages were moved fully by Patrick Trollope onto PCBT Photography, his business website. The interest shown in the multi-page section during 1999 helped the site develop quicker than expected and made it hard to keep the bandwidth down. The result was that the pages had to move yet again to a new temporary host location in 2000 on a newly-launched site called SGB.
The increase of visitors in 2000 helped the Southport Reporter to become more established and led to the name being registered both as a URL and as trademark. By 2001 the site became fully established as an independently hosted site known as SouthportReporter.com. As the site became bigger it also began to be published under the names Mersey Reporter[8] and Liverpool Reporter. By April 2002 Southport Reporter, was starting to become known as Southport & Mersey Reporter and had started covering events as far as Manchester, when the paper covered the Manchester Commonwealth Games, working on an international level.[9] By 2007 the paper was being used as a news resource for many international media groups, like HULIQ.[10] In 2008 the paper started to run a link with a Limited Company,[11] called PBT Media Relations Ltd.[12]
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- ^ http://www.skvpr.co.uk/nwda.html Northwest Regional Development Agency
- ^ Published in UK as the "UK's only web-based newspaper" in January 2005 in hard copy magazine called "Web Pages Made Easy." and on the Trade Mark Register as a newspaper patent.gov.uk No. 2292469
- ^ Named in a 2007 report in the Preston Citizen Also they are listed in the Hollis PR & Media Guide 2006. - ISBN 1 904193 250 UK ISSN 1364-9000 and the Hollis PR & Media Guide 2004 Also on BBC page called "Other news sources in the Merseyside area"
- ^ An example of who has recognised them can be seen on the official Liverpool 08 Business group newspage. See 08Business ConnectReport. The site is owned by the European Capital Of Culture group, The Liverpool Culture Company.
- ^ JOURNALISM AND PUBLIC TRUST - NUJ Ethics Council
- ^ "Patrick Trollope, Editor of Southport Reporter" is a contributor and referred to in a book called Viking Mersey, written by Stephen Harding. ISBN 1901231 34 8 Published by Countryvise Publication, Wirral UK in 2002.
- ^ Published in UK as the "UK's only web-based newspaper" in January 2005 in hard copy magazine called Web Pages Made Easy.
- ^ UK Office's 2007 MEP press briefing.
- ^ Imágenes de Nicola Willis - Link from URL to report about Manchester Commonwealth Games
- ^ HULIQ.COM - A report where Southport Reporter is quoted as Source. Submitted by admin_huliq on Sat, 2007-11-17 22:33.
- ^ Mersey Reporter Home Page - section "Who are we...?"
- ^ Companies House Company No. 06042334
