 | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | National World |
| Publisher | Sheffield Newspapers Ltd |
| Editor | Claire Lewis |
| Founded | 1887 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Sheffield |
| Circulation | 5,764 (as of 2023)[1] |
| Sister newspapers | Doncaster Star,Sheffield Telegraph |
| Website | thestar.co.uk |
The Star, often known as theSheffield Star, is a dailynewspaper published inSheffield,England, from Monday to Saturday each week. Originally abroadsheet, the newspaper became atabloid in 1993.The Star, the weeklySheffield Telegraph and theGreen 'Un are published by Sheffield Newspapers Ltd (owned byNational World), based at Cubo Work on Carver Street inSheffield City Centre.
The Star is marketed inSouth Yorkshire, NorthDerbyshire and NorthNottinghamshire and reaches its readers through its main edition and district edition forDoncaster. TheRotherham andBarnsley district editions closed in 2008. The total average issue readership forThe Star is 105,498.[2]
The newspaper which subsequently becameThe Star began as theSheffield Evening Telegraph,[3] the first edition of which was published on 7 June 1887.
It soon took over its only local rival, theSheffield Evening Star, and from June 1888 to December 1897 it was known as theEvening Telegraph and Star and Sheffield Daily Times, then from 1898 to October 1937 as theYorkshire Telegraph and Star.
In 1931, it took over theSheffield Mail, which had been its main rival since 1920. From 1937 to November 1938, the newspaper became theTelegraph & Star, and finally, from 14 November 1938 was known asThe Star.
In April 1989, the newspaper published false reports about theHillsborough disaster which occurred in the city and in which 97Liverpool F.C. fans were fatally injured at anFA Cup semi-final tie. It claimed that the key factor of the tragedy was the drunkenness of Liverpool fans. These claims were met with outrage by Liverpool fans, particularly when it was established that police loss of crowd control and the presence of perimeter fencing between the stands and the pitch were the key factors in the tragedy, althoughThe Sun caused the most offence forits reporting on the event.[4]
Johnston Press began printingThe Star at their new £60 million printing plant inDinnington, near Rotherham, in September 2006. The plant includes the first 'triple width' newspaper press in the UK. The plant also prints several other Johnston Press titles, including theSheffield Telegraph,Scarborough Evening News,Wakefield Express,Derbyshire Times, andChesterfield Advertiser, and a number of external publications, includingThe Sun and (for several years) theNews of the World forNews International.[5]
In March 2011,The Star sports columnist and Features Editor Martin Smith received a top national award at the British Sports Journalism Awards. He was named Regional Sports Writer of the Year, for the third time in eight years, by theSports Journalists' Association.[6]
Nancy Fielder was made the editor ofThe Star in April 2016.[7] James Mitchinson, Jeremy Clifford and John Furbisher held the position previously after Alan Powell retired in 2010. The current editor is Claire Lewis.