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The Yorkshire Post

The Yorkshire Post is a daily broadsheet newspaper, published in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. It primarily covers stories from Yorkshire, although its masthead carries the slogan "Yorkshire's National Newspaper". It was previously owned by Johnston Press and is now owned by National World. Founded in 1754, it is one of the oldest newspapers in the country.

Not to be confused with Yorkshire Evening Post.

Type

Daily newspaper

James Mitchinson

1754

10,634 (as of 2023)[1]

Editions are available throughout the United Kingdom with offices across Yorkshire in Harrogate, Hull, Scarborough, Sheffield and York, as well as correspondents in Westminster and the City of London. The current editor is James Mitchinson.[2] It considers itself "one of Britain's most trusted and historic newsbrands."[3]

1754: Griffith Wright

1785: Thomas Wright

1805: Griffith Wright Jr

1819: William Cooke Stafford

1822: Alaric Watts

1842: W. T. Bolland

1848: Christopher Kemplay

1866: John R. K. Ralph

1882: Charles Pebody

1890: H. J. Palmer

1903: J. S. R. Phillips

1920:

Arthur Mann

1939:

Linton Andrews

1961: Kenneth Young

1964: J. Edward Crossley

1969: John Edwards

1989: Tony Watson

2003: Rachael Campey

2004: Peter Charlton

2013: Jeremy Clifford

2015: James Mitchinson

Adapted from the official website:[13]

Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers (1980) pp. 366–72

British Library picture of the Leedes Intelligencer 19 May 1761