Eastern Daily Press
Regional newspaper covering Norfolk and parts of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire
The Eastern Daily Press (EDP) is a regional newspaper covering Norfolk, northern parts of Suffolk and eastern Cambridgeshire, and is published daily in Norwich, UK. The paper also produces a sister edition, the Norwich Evening News.
01History
Founded in 1870 as a broadsheet called the Eastern Counties Daily Press, it changed its name to the Eastern Daily Press in 1872. It switched to the compact (tabloid) format in the mid-1990s. The paper is now owned and published by Newsquest. In 2022, Newsquest took over the newspaper's former publisher Archant, formerly known as Eastern Counties Newspapers Group.
02Notable editors and former journalists
- Edmund Rogers - founding editor, 1870-73
- Keiron Pim, biographer, author of Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
Sources and credits
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