Tuesday 26 May 2009

Reading Evening Post stops five day publishing next week and relaunches with two titles

The Guardian Media Group's Reading Evening Post will relaunch on Wednesday next week as a weekly edition called the Reading Post, followed on Friday by a new paper named after its website, getreading.co.uk
It was revealed in March that GMG was going to cut the Evening Post from five days a week to two.
The new-look Reading Post – with a 20p cover price for its launch on Wednesday, June 3 – aims to have a more "upmarket" look. Then on Friday, getreading, claimed to be the first newspaper in the UK to be named after a website, will be delivered free to 70,979 homes and will also be on sale in newsagents on Friday priced 40p.
It will have a what’s on guide, a preview of the weekend’s sport plus the week’s latest news. The last Evening Post will roll off the presses on Friday with a special souvenir edition featuring the history of the paper since it launched in 1965.
On Monday getreading.co.uk will carry a new lunchtime video news bulletin and the site will continue to provide live news updates.
The Post follows the Bath Evening Chronicle in switching to a weekly format and it is thought other small regional evenings will follow the trend.
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