The ''Liverpool Echo'' is a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror North West & North Wales – a subsidiary company of
Reach plc and is based in St Paul's Square,
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...
,
Merseyside,
England
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. It is published Monday to Sunday, and is Liverpool's daily newspaper. Until 13 January 2012 it had a sister morning paper, the ''
Liverpool Daily Post
The ''Liverpool Post'' was a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. The newspaper and its website ceased publication on 19 December 2013.
Until 13 January 2012 it was a daily morning newspaper, with the ti ...
''. It has an average daily circulation (Jul – Dec 2021) of 23,414.
Historically the newspaper was published by the Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Ltd. Its office is in St Paul's Square Liverpool, having downsized from Old Hall Street in March 2018.
The editor is Maria Breslin.
In 1879 the ''Liverpool Echo'' was published as a cheaper sister paper to the ''Liverpool Daily Post''. From its inception until 1917 the newspaper cost a halfpenny. It is now 85p Monday to Friday, £1.20 on Saturday and 90p on Sunday.
The limited company expanded internationally and in 1985 was restructured as Trinity International Holdings Plc. The two original newspapers had just previously been re-launched in tabloid format.
A special Sunday edition of the ''Echo'' was published on 16 April 1989, for reporting on the previous day's
Hillsborough disaster, in which 97
Liverpool F.C. fans were fatally injured at the
FA Cup
The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competi ...
semi-final tie in
Sheffield
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. Every single one of the 75,000 copies printed was sold.
In 1999 Trinity merged with
Mirror Group Newspapers to become Trinity Mirror, the largest stable of newspapers in the country. In 2018, Trinity Mirror was rebranded as
Reach plc.
On 7 January 2014 it was announced that a regular Sunday edition of the paper would be launched. The ''Sunday Echo'' is "a seventh day of publication, not an independent product", according to the paper.
In 2008 the paper moved printing from Liverpool to Trinity Mirror Plc, Oldham, Greater Manchester, while journalists remain based at St Paul's Square in Liverpool city centre.
In 2020 editor-in-chief Alistair Machray stood down and was replaced by Maria Breslin.
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Newspapers published in Merseyside
Newspapers established in 1879
Mass media in Liverpool
Daily newspapers published in the United Kingdom
1879 establishments in England
Newspapers published by Reach plc