Yorkshire Evening Post
 | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Yorkshire Post Newspapers (Johnston Press) |
| Editor | Peter Charlton |
| Founded | 1890 |
| Political alignment | Centre-left |
| Headquarters | Leeds, England |
| Circulation | 61,332 (Jan-Jun 2006)[1] |
| Website | YEP Online |
The Yorkshire Evening Post (often abbreviated to YEP) is a daily evening publication (delivered to newsagents every morning) published by Yorkshire Post Newspapers Ltd in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The paper provides a regional slant on the day's news, and traditionally provides close reporting on Leeds United and Leeds Rhinos as well as the Yorkshire County Cricket Club team.
The newspaper generally takes a liberal/centre left position, unlike the Yorkshire Post, which has a particularly conservative bias. Despite its title that implies the paper is Yorkshire wide it is a Leeds-based paper, still widely circulated in Bradford, Harrogate, Huddersfield and Wakefield as well.
The City of Leeds has two further widely circulated local papers, being the Wetherby News and the Wharfedale and Airedale Observer.
For many years, the Evening Post produced a separate edition for South Yorkshire printed simultaneously in Doncaster. In 1970 that was converted into the now-closed Doncaster Evening Post.
In his 2015 memoir former reporter Revel Barker recalls the 1960s
''During the cricket season...the Evening Post would be on the streets at 10.30 a.m. The 'First' would be out about noon, the 'Final' at 2 p.m.,the 'One-star final' around 3.30 and the 'Late Night Final' about 4.30..the Post was selling around 250,00 copies a night...nowadays there is only one edition,written and produced the night before and printed in Sheffield,
36 miles away''
(In 1963)''our main competition the Yorkshire Evening News succumbed to economic pressures and folded to merge with the YEP - for a brief time creating a daily circulation close to half a million copies''
''The Last Pub in Fleet Street'' Palatino Publishing 2015
Move from Leeds
In February 2012 Johnston Press announced that printing of The Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post in Leeds would be switched to their plant at Dinnington near Sheffield and the Wellington Street printing facility closed.
In September 2013, it was announced the Wellington Street premises would be demolished as journalists had already moved out. Preliminary demolition began in March 2014, while in April 2014 it was announced the iconic tower would be spared.[2]
Availability
The Yorkshire Evening Post is widely available across the City of Leeds as well as areas around Harrogate, Wakefield, Dewsbury and Ilkley. An on-line edition is also available.
Trivia
- Mark Knopfler was once a reporter for the newspaper
- Keith Waterhouse started his career there, before becoming a playwright and comedy writer.
- Peter O'Toole was once a trainee journalist there
See also
References
- ^ Leeds - Yorkshire Evening Post (Mon-Sat) Standard Certificate of Circulation, 02-Jan-2006 to 02-Jul-2006 Audit Bureau of Circulations
- ^ "Leeds landmark tower to survive Yorkshire Post demolition". BBC News. BBC. 17 April 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
External links
- Official website
- YEP Community Websites
- Digitised copies of the Yorkshire Evening Post, 1890-1904 at the British Newspaper Archive
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