The ''Doncaster Free Press'' is a weekly newspaper in

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. It is owned by National World.

Content of the newspaper

The ''Free Press'', or ''DFP'' as it is sometimes known, is published each Thursday and is currently priced at £1.90. Its sections include

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, crime, Your Week, Your World, In Court, Business, Education, Environment, Retro, Walks, Your Puzzles, Entertainment and Travel, jobs, promotions and competitions,

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and motors as well as an extensive classified and display advertising section featuring family announcements.

Paul Foot Award

''Doncaster Free Press'' journalist Deborah Wain jointly won the

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in 2007, for exposing corruption in the Doncaster Education City project.

Industrial action of 2011

On 15 July 2011, NUJ-represented staff employed within the Doncaster Free Press walked out on indefinite strike, along with those from the ''South Yorkshire Times'', the ''Goole Courier'' and the '' Selby Times''. Staff returned on 8 September to allow talks to commence, after 55 consecutive days away from work.

Offices

Staff work from home. The paper left its Sunny Bar home of 89 years to move to new premises in January 2014. Reporters still live and work in Doncaster. It was first published on 18 June 1925.

Current and previous editors of the Free Press

The current editor of the newspaper is Dominic Brown. Previous editors are Nancy Fielder, Phil Bramley, Chris Burton, Graeme Huston, Merrill Diplock, Martin Edmunds, Richard Tear, Leonard Peet, Maurice Coupe and the paper's founder and first editor, Richard "Dickie" Crowther. These are the only editors in the entire history of the newspaper. It is part of the National World publishing empire.

Other publications

The SYN stable also used to include paid-for weekly titles such as ''South Yorkshire Times'', ''Epworth Bells and Crowle Advertiser'', ''Gainsborough Standard'' and ''Worksop Guardian''. Former titles such as the ''Selby Times'', as well as free titles the ''Doncaster Advertiser'', ''Goole and Howden Courier'' and ''Thorne and District Gazette'' are now either defunct or have been swallowed into other publications.

References

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