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| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Newsquest |
| Founded | 1900 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Bournemouth,Dorset,England |
| Circulation | 5,429 (as of 2023)[1] |
| Sister newspapers | Southern Daily Echo (Southampton) Dorset Echo (Weymouth) |
| ISSN | 1368-3837 |
| Website | www |
TheBournemouth Daily Echo, commonly known as theDaily Echo (a.k.a. theBournemouth Echo), is a localnewspaper that covers the area of southeastDorset,England, including the townsPoole,Bournemouth andChristchurch. Published byNewsquest (Southern) Limited, issues appear Monday to Saturday, and has an average daily circulation of 9,589 in January to June 2020.[2]
The newspaper was first published on 20 August 1900, and the centenary of the paper was celebrated inEchoes of the Century, a book published by theDaily Echo in 2000 that chronicles the history and reportage of a century.[3] Since 1932, the newspaper has been based out of theBournemouth Daily Echo building in theRichmond Hill area ofBournemouth Town Centre.[4]
In October 2006, the EDF Energy London and South of England Media Awards awardedThe Daily Echo the title of Daily Newspaper of the Year. In the same competition, the paper also won Columnist of the Year and Environmental Journalist of the Year for the work of Faith Eckersall and Natalie Bruckner respectively.[5]
The paper was involved in reporting theTesco bomb campaign, an attempted extortion against Tesco stores in the Bournemouth area in 2000–01. It placed classified adverts on behalf of the police, which allowed them to communicate with the perpetrator. It later resulted in capture of Robert Dyer.[6][7]
A notable journalist who worked for theBournemouth Evening Echo in the late 1970s was the writerBill Bryson.[8]
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