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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Media |
| Founded | 1950s |
| Headquarters | Farnham, Surrey |
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Number of employees | 250 |
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| Website | www |
TheTindle Group is a British multimedia company operating regional newspapers and radio stations across theBritish Isles.
It publishes over 200 local newspapers in theUnited Kingdom, a number of which are over a hundred years old.[citation needed]
The company is based inFarnham,Surrey, under CEO Danny Cammiade.[when?][citation needed]
It is owned by theTindle family. Founder SirRay Tindle was a "strong believer in 'ultra-local' journalism",[1] a culture which the company still follows today.[citation needed] He remained the company's president until his death in 2022.[2] His son, Owen Tindle, took over as chairman in 2017.[3]
The Tindle newspaper empire started out in the 1950s, when Sir Ray Tindle acquired theTooting & Balham Gazette with his £300demob payment after his time serving during theSecond World War.[4]
At the company's peak, Tindle Newspapers owned and operated more than 220 local titles.[citation needed]
The following is a partial list of newspapers owned by the company:[5]
In 2019, Tindle Newspaper Group closed four of their local newspapers.[7]
In the 1970s, Sir Ray Tindle was an early investor inCapital.[8] In 1998, he sold back his shares in the company to buyIsland FM in Guernsey, the first local station to form part of the Tindle group.
The company continued to grow and acquire a dozen stations in England and Wales. Tindle sold its UK radio assets toAnglian Radio in a management buyout in 2013. The stations were then sold on toCelador and laterBauer.[9]
Tindle continues to own and operate Island FM, as well asChannel 103 in Jersey,Midlands 103 in Ireland, andSoleil Radio which broadcasts across the Channel Islands.[10]
In 2003, as theIraq War started, the owner of the Tindle Newspaper Group, Sir Ray Tindle, issued an order to his newspapers that they could no longer cover anti-war protests.[11] This decision was controversial and was attacked as censorship by a number of commentators, including theNational Union of Journalists General SecretaryJeremy Dear.[12]
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