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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | National World |
| Editor-in-chief | Dominic Brown |
| Editor | Dominic Brown |
| Staff writers | Reporters and content curators: Paul Goodwin, Stephanie Bateman, Darren Burke, Ricky Charlesworth |
| Founded | 18 June 1925 |
| Language | English |
| Circulation | 3,272 (as of 2023)[1] |
| Sister newspapers | The Star (Sheffield), Yorkshire Post |
| Website | doncasterfreepress |
TheDoncaster Free Press is a weekly newspaper inDoncaster,South Yorkshire,England. It is owned by National World.
TheFree Press, orDFP as it is sometimes known, is published each Thursday and is currently priced at £1.90.Its sections includenews,sport, crime, Your Week, Your World, In Court, Business, Education, Environment, Retro, Walks, Your Puzzles, Entertainment and Travel, jobs, promotions and competitions,puzzles,property and motors as well as an extensive classified and display advertising section featuring family announcements.
Doncaster Free Press journalist Deborah Wain jointly won thePaul Foot Award in 2007, for exposing corruption in theDoncaster Education City project.[2]
On 15 July 2011,NUJ-represented staff employed within the Doncaster Free Presswalked out on indefinite strike, along with those from theSouth Yorkshire Times, theGoole Courier and theSelby Times. Staff returned on 8 September to allow talks to commence, after 55 consecutive days away from work.
Staff work from home. The paper left its Sunny Bar home of 89 years to move to new premises in January 2014. Reporters still live and work in Doncaster. It was first published on 18 June 1925.[3]
The current editor of the newspaper is Dominic Brown.Previous editors are Nancy Fielder, Phil Bramley, Chris Burton, Graeme Huston, Merrill Diplock, Martin Edmunds, Richard Tear, Leonard Peet, Maurice Coupe and the paper's founder and first editor, Richard "Dickie" Crowther. These are the only editors in the entire history of the newspaper.
It is part of the National World publishing empire.
The SYN stable also used to include paid-for weekly titles such asSouth Yorkshire Times,Epworth Bells and Crowle Advertiser,Gainsborough Standard andWorksop Guardian. Former titles such as theSelby Times, as well as free titles theDoncaster Advertiser,Goole and Howden Courier andThorne and District Gazette are now either defunct or have been swallowed into other publications.
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