The ''South Wales Echo'' is a daily tabloid

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published in

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and distributed throughout the surrounding area. It has a circulation of 7,573.

Background

The newspaper was founded in 1884 and was based in Thomson House, Cardiff city centre. It is published by

Media Wales Media Wales Ltd. is a publishing company based in Cardiff, Wales. As of 2009 it was owned by Reach plc (formerly known as the Trinity Mirror Group). It was previously known as the Western Mail & Echo Ltd. History The ''Western Mail'' was fo ...

Ltd (formerly Western Mail & Echo Ltd), part of the Reach plc group. In 2008, Media Wales moved from Thomson House, Havelock Street and Park Street, to Six Park Street and Scott Road, west of the former main offices and printing plant, south of the Principality Stadium. There is a ''Weekend edition'' published every Saturday. Among many other writers, novelist

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, science writer Brian J. Ford, cartoonist Gren Jones, journalist Sue Lawley and

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, have spent part of their careers with the ''Echo''.

''Football Echo''

An associated paper, the ''Football Echo'', later called the ''Sport Echo'', was published on Saturday afternoons from 1919 until 2006. Printed on-site, on pink paper, it was available soon after the final whistle of rugby and football matches, across the street. At its peak the Football Echo sold up to 80,000 copies.

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Background

''Football Echo''

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