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The Doncaster Free Press is a weekly newspaper in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. It is owned by South Yorkshire Newspapers (SYN), a subsidiary of the Johnston Press publishing empire. The Free Press is published each Thursday and is currently priced at 55p. Its sections include news, sport, Freetime (entertainment), Freeviews (letters), Soapbox (column to air your views), Down Your Way (community news), Business, Freelife, property and motors as well as an extensive classified section. Its offices are in Sunny Bar, Doncaster. It was first published in 1925. The current editor is Graeme Huston, 41, who arrived at Sunny Bar in May 2005 from the Edinburgh Evening News, where he was Deputy Editor. Previous editors include Merrill Diplock, Martin Edmunds, Richard Tear, Leonard Peet, Maurice Coupe and the paper's founder and first editor, Richard "Dickie" Crowther. The managing director of South Yorkshire Newspapers is Paul Bentham. It is part of the Johnston Press publishing empire which has its headquarters in Edinburgh. The newspaper employs people in a variety of departments. These include editorial, advertising (classified and display), photographic, art and design, finance, production, property, motors, sales and marketing. The deputy editor of the Doncaster Free Press is Kath Finlay. Sports editor is Peter Catt, assistant editor Stuart Chandler and features editor Darren Burke. The SYN stable also includes paid-for weekly titles the South Yorkshire Times - deputy editor David Jones, Epworth Bells - deputy editor Eddie Mardell and Gainsborough Standard - editor Janet Harrison, as well as free titles the Doncaster Advertiser - editor Martin Edmunds, Goole and Howden Courier - editor Janet Harrison and Thorne and District Gazette - editor Graeme Huston. Helen Bowen-Green is the advertising manager, Marianne King is the magazines manager, Eve Hanson is display advertising manager and Malcolm Billingham chief photographer. Other titles produced by the company include the Community Newsletters series, edited by Jim Oldfield The Entertainer, Rovers World, the Lincolnshire Official Visitor Guide and Wedding Diary.
External links
- [1] Doncaster Free Press website
