The ''Eastern Daily Press'' (''EDP'') is a regional newspaper covering

Norfolk Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and eas ...

, northern parts of

Suffolk Suffolk ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county ...

and eastern

Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfor ...

, and is published daily in

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich ...

, UK. The paper also produces a sister edition, the '' Norwich Evening News''.

History

Founded in 1870 as a

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called the ''Eastern Counties Daily Press'', it changed its name to the ''Eastern Daily Press'' in 1872. It switched to the

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( tabloid) format in the mid-1990s. The paper is now owned and published by Newsquest. In 2022 Newsquest took over the newspaper's former publisher Archant, formerly known as Eastern Counties Newspapers Group.

Notable editors and former journalists

* Edmund Rogers - founding editor, 1870–73 * Keiron Pim, biographer, author of Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth

Current editors

* Richard Porritt

References

External links

EDP24
the newspaper's online site. Newspapers published in Norfolk Mass media in Norwich Newspapers published in Suffolk Newspapers published in Cambridgeshire Newspapers established in 1870 Archant Daily newspapers published in the United Kingdom {{England-newspaper-stub