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| Type | Daily regional newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner | Midland News Association |
| Editor | Martin Wright |
| Founded | 5 October 1964 |
| Headquarters | Head office: Midland News Association, 51-53 Queen Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1ES |
| Circulation | 7,551 (as of 2024)[1] |
| Sister newspapers | Express & Star |
| Website | shropshirestar.com |
TheShropshire Star is an English regional newspaper and reputedly the twelfth biggest-selling regional newspaper in the UK.[2] It is based at Grosvenor House,Telford, where it covers the whole ofShropshire plus parts ofHerefordshire,Worcestershire,Staffordshire,Cheshire andMid Wales. It is printed by Newsquest at their Deeside office.
Currently edited by Mark Drew, theShropshire Star publishes daily, except for Sunday. In the first half of 2012, the newspaper had a daily circulation of 49,751.[3] Ten years later paid print circulation had fallen by 80% to less than 10,000 (ABC Jan-Jun 2023). In 2023, in an attempt to reverse its declining fortunes the newspaper began the process to monetize its online views by placing the majority of its news content behind a paywall.
TheShropshire Star was under the ownership of the Graham family from its inception to September 2023. TheShropshire Star is published by theMidland News Association (MNA), which also owns theExpress & Star newspaper.
TheShropshire Star has been in circulation since Monday 5 October 1964,[4] inheriting a nightly circulation of around 19,000 from the old Shropshire edition of theExpress & Star.[5]
TheMidland News Association board saw an opportunity with the growth of Dawley New Town - later renamedTelford - and produced a successful news and advertising product to serve a county which is a mixture of agriculture and industrial areas.
It was the first British newspaper to bring readers colour pictures of theMoon landing in 1969. In the mid-1980s theShropshire Star became one of the first newspapers in Britain to introduce an editorial computer system, following in the footsteps of its sister paper the Express & Star which was the first, in 1980.
TheShropshire Star later became the first evening newspaper in Europe to use web-fedoffset printing, which refers to the use of rolls (or webs) of paper supplied to the printing press.[5][6]
In September 2023, the paper was sold by the family-owned Claverley Group toNational World.[7]
TheShropshire Star publishes breaking news and sport content online each day, in addition to regular blogs and unique video content. Its website, shropshirestar.com,[8] was launched in 1997.
AShropshire Star App foriPad andiPhone was launched in January 2012, using page-turning technology to mimic the look and feel of the actual newspaper.
August 2012 saw the website re-launched in aresponsive web design alongside its sister title expressandstar.com[9] – believed to be the first of any other regional newspaper websites in the UK.[10]
By 2015, the termShropshire Star was being inputted into search engines more than 200,000 times per calendar month, which made it the most popular search string with the wordShropshire in the request.[11]
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