The Kerryman
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatBroadsheet until 2009 Tabloid since 2006 published in both sizes (2006-2009).
Owner(s)Independent News & Media who are a subsidiary of Mediahuis[1]
EditorKevin Hughes
Founded1904
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters9/10 Denny Street, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland
CityTralee
CountryIreland
Websiteindependent.ie/regionals/kerryman/

The Kerryman is a weekly local newspaper published in County Kerry in Ireland by Independent News & Media who are a subsidiary of Mediahuis.[1] The newspaper was founded in 1904 by Maurice Griffin and cousins Thomas and Daniel Nolan.[2] Independent News & Media, then known as Independent Newspapers Limited acquired The Kerryman in 1972.[3]

It has three different editions – North Kerry, South Kerry and Tralee. All three editions are tabloid format newspaper. The move of the Tralee edition to a tabloid format in 2006 meant that The Kerryman became Ireland's first dual format newspaper. The last broadsheet edition hit shops in 2009.[citation needed]

The main office is located on Denny Street in Tralee having moved from its previous base of over thirty years in the Clash Industrial Estate in 2007.[citation needed]

According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it had an average weekly circulation of 19,886 during the first six months of 2011, a fall of 3.5% year on year and 21% since 2008.[4][5] These are the last circulation figures available as Independent News and Media, owner of the paper, refused to allow publication of audited figures for the second half of 2011 results as they "did not resonate with local advertisers". INM deregistered its twelve regional titles from auditing in February 2012, with a plan to instead provide "bespoke local surveys" of sales.[6]

Kevin Hughes was appointed as editor in 2015.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "The page turns at INM as it ponders a digital future". Irish Times. 2 August 2019.
  2. ^ Kerry's Fighting Story 1916-21 : Told by the Men Who Made it. Mercier Press Ltd. 2009. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-85635-641-1.
  3. ^ Horgan, John (2001). Irish Media: A Critical History since 1922. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-60616-0.
  4. ^ "Irish ABCs: Only 2 titles increase sales in first half 2011". Press Gazette. 25 August 2011. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
  5. ^ "Irish Regional Newspapers Circulation Jan June 2011".
  6. ^ Greenslade, Roy (15 February 2012). "Irish publisher pulls regional titles from ABC". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
  7. ^ "In Brief: New editor for Kerryman and Corkman". Irish Independent. 25 May 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2023.

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Media in County Kerry
Newspapers in the Republic of Ireland
Newspapers of Ireland founded in the period before the establishment of Northern Ireland in 1921 and the Republic of Ireland in 1937
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