Editing Liverpool Echo

{{short description|English daily tabloid newspaper}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2015}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Liverpool Echo
| image = Liverpool Echo building 13 March 2013 004 stitch.jpg
| caption = Liverpool Echo building in March 2013{{Credit|John Bradley}}
| type = [[Daily newspaper]]
| format = [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|Tabloid]]
| foundation = 1879
| owners = [[Reach plc]]
| political = [[Centre-left]]
| headquarters = Liverpool, Merseyside
| editor = Maria Breslin
| website = {{official URL}}
| circulation = 10,961
| circulation_date = 2024
| circulation_ref = <ref name="circ">{{cite web |title=Liverpool Echo |url=https://www.abc.org.uk/product/9783 |publisher=[[Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)|Audit Bureau of Circulations]] |date=30 July 2024 |access-date=19 December 2024}}</ref>
| logo = Liverpool Echo logo.svg
| logo_size = 250px
}}

The '''''Liverpool Echo''''' is a newspaper published by [[Reach plc|Trinity Mirror]] North West & North Wales – a subsidiary company of [[Reach plc]] and is based in St. Paul's Square, [[Liverpool]], [[England]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Liverpool Echo: Latest Liverpool and Merseyside news, sports and what's on |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/ |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=Liverpool Echo |language=en}}</ref> It is published Monday through Sunday, and is Liverpool's daily newspaper. Until January 13, 2012 , it had a sister morning paper, the ''[[Liverpool Daily Post]]''. Between July and December 2022, it had an average daily circulation of 15,395.<ref name="circ"/>

Historically, the newspaper was published by the Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Ltd. Its office is in [[St Paul's Square, Liverpool]], having downsized from [[Old Hall Street]] in March 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/echo-move-new-home-liverpool-14039002|title=ECHO to move to new home in Liverpool city centre opposite current office|first=Alistair|last=Houghton|date=14 December 2017|website=Liverpool Echo}}</ref>

== History ==
In 1879, the ''Liverpool Echo'' was published as a cheaper sister paper to the ''Liverpool Daily Post''. From its inception until 1917 the newspaper cost a halfpenny. It is now £1.40p Monday to Friday, £1.80p on Saturday and £1.40p on Sunday.

The limited company expanded internationally and underwent restructuring in 1985, becoming Trinity International Holdings Plc. Prior to this restructuring, the two original newspapers had recently been re-launched in [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid format]].

A special Sunday edition of the ''Echo'' was published on 16 April 1989, for reporting on the previous day's [[Hillsborough disaster]], in which 97 [[Liverpool F.C.]] fans were fatally injured at the [[FA Cup]] semi-final tie in [[Sheffield]]. Every single one of the 75,000 copies printed was sold.<ref>{{cite news |last=MacArthur |first=Brian |date=23 April 1989 |title=How Every Picture Told a Different Story of Tragedy; Hillsborough Football Disaster |newspaper=The Sunday Times |location=London |via=Gale  |quote=A special Sunday edition of the Liverpool Echo sold all 75,000 copies.}}
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In 1999 Trinity merged with [[Mirror Group Newspapers]] to become Trinity Mirror, the largest stable of newspapers in the country.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Barrie |first1=Chris |title=Trinity wins Mirror deal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/1999/jul/31/8 |website=The Guardian |access-date=9 June 2020 |date=31 July 1999}}</ref> In 2018, Trinity Mirror was rebranded as [[Reach plc]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Daily Mirror publisher Trinity to change name |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/trinity-reach-name-change-daily-mirror-publisher-revenue-slump-a8239996.html |website=The Independent |access-date=9 June 2020 |date=5 March 2018}}</ref>

On 7 January 2014 it was announced that a regular Sunday edition of the paper would be launched. The ''Sunday Echo'' is "a seventh day of publication, not an independent product", according to the paper.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=7 January 2014 |title=Liverpool Echo to Launch Sunday Echo on January 19 |url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-echo-launch-sunday-echo-6476727 |newspaper=Liverpool Echo |access-date=7 January 2014}}</ref>

In 2008 the paper moved printing from Liverpool to Trinity Mirror Plc, Oldham, Greater Manchester, while journalists remain based at St Paul's Square in Liverpool city centre.

In 2020, editor-in-chief Alistair Machray stood down and was replaced by Maria Breslin.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-echo-editor-ali-machray-18567319 | title=Liverpool Echo editor Ali Machray to stand down | date=9 July 2020 }}</ref>

Criticism has been directed at the ''Echo'' for its perceived bias towards local politicians. In 2024, Liam Thorp, the paper's political editor, collaborated on a book titled "Head North: A Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain" with the metro mayors of Manchester and Liverpool, [[Andy Burnham]] and [[Steve Rotheram]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ball |first1=Jonny |title=Battle cry of the Scouse dads |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2024/03/battle-cry-of-the-scouse-dads |access-date=28 March 2024 |work=New Statesman |date=11 March 2024}}</ref>

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==External links==
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*{{Official website|https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk}}

{{Trinity Mirror}}
{{UK regional daily newspapers}}
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