The Oxford Times
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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
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| Format | tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Newsquest |
| Publisher | Newsquest |
| Editor | Simon O’Neill |
| Founded | 1862 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Newspaper House, Osney Mead, Oxford |
| Circulation | 12,638[1] |
| Website | The Oxford Times |
The Oxford Times is a weekly newspaper, published each Thursday in Oxford, England. It is published from a large production facility at Osney Mead, west Oxford, and is owned by Newsquest, the UK subsidiary of US-based Gannett Company.
The Oxford Times has a number of colour supplements. Oxfordshire Limited Edition, is included with the first edition of each month. There is also a monthly In Business supplement.
The Oxford Times has several sister publications:
- The Herald Series - a set of weekly tabloid newspapers covering Abingdon, Wantage, Wallingford and Didcot.
- Witney Gazette - a weekly tabloid newspaper covering Witney and Carterton.
- Bicester Advertiser - a weekly tabloid newspaper covering Bicester.
- Banbury Cake - a free weekly tabloid newspaper for the Banbury area.
- Oxford Star - a free weekly tabloid newspaper established in 1976;
- Oxford Mail - a daily tabloid newspaper published Monday to Saturday founded in 1928.
History
The Oxford Times was founded in 1862 as a weekly broadsheet.
In 1922, Lawrence of Arabia commissioned The Oxford Times to typeset and print an advance private edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. This is known as the "1922 Edition" or the "Oxford Text" of Seven Pillars.
The Oxford Times has won a number of national awards including Regional Weekly Newspaper of the Year in 2004,[2] 2005,[3] and 2007.[4]
In March 2008 the paper changed to tabloid or "compact" style.[5] Until 24 October 2008 the paper was published each Friday.
The Oxford Times circulation fell from 26,262 in 2006[6] to 20,537 in January 2008.[1]
In 2011 Editor Derek Holmes left Newsquest after his post was made redundant. Oxford Mail editor Simon O’Neill added the responsibility to his role under a new job title of Group editor.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Awards 2004, Newspaper Awards UK
- ↑ Awards 2005, Newspaper Awards UK
- ↑ Awards 2007, Newspaper Awards UK
- ↑ Oxford and Oxfordshire news, sport, business, leisure and what's on from The Oxford Times newspaper (link now defunct)
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Helen Lambourne, "Editor leaves group in cost-cutting restructure", Hold the Front Page, 19 April 2011
