Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Tabloid |
Owner(s) | Trinity Mirror |
Editor | Jonathan Roberts |
Founded | 1893 as the South Wales Daily Post |
Language | English / Welsh |
Headquarters | Swansea, United Kingdom |
Circulation | 13,257[1] |
Website | www.walesonline.co.uk |
The South Wales Evening Post is a tabloid daily newspaper distributed in the South West region of Wales. The paper has three daily editions – Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire[2] – and is published by Media Wales, part of the Reach plc group.[2] The current editor is Jonathan Roberts.[3] As the name suggests, it had previously been an evening paper, but later moved to a morning daily.
The paper has a circulation of 13,257 as recorded by the ABC in January 2020, down from 40,149 in 2011.[citation needed]
Founded in 1893 as the South Wales Daily Post, the paper changed its name in 1932 to the current title.[4] Former journalists included poet Dylan Thomas, who joined from school in 1930 but left 18 months later to become freelance.[5]
In August 2006, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation figures, the South Wales Evening Post overtook the Cardiff-based South Wales Echo as the biggest-selling evening newspaper in Wales.[6]
Presently the Post is published six days a week by Media Wales, the company that also publishes the Carmarthen Journal, Neath Port Talbot Courier, and Llanelli Star.[2] The Evening Post produces a range of special features and supplements on entertainment, TV, motoring, property, employment and sport.[7]
In 2012, Local World acquired owner Northcliffe Media from Daily Mail and General Trust.[8]
In 2013 the paper gained national attention during the 2013 Swansea measles epidemic as it had previously led a campaign against the vaccine after misunderstanding Andrew Wakefield's research.[9]