Derbyshire Times

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Derbyshire Times

Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Tabloid

Owner	Johnston Press
Editor	Mike Wilson
Founded	1855
Political allegiance	No overt bias
Headquarters	Chesterfield

Website: www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk

The Derbyshire Times is a local newspaper published in northern Derbyshire. It appears weekly, each edition being on sale on Thursdays.

Its headquarters are in Chesterfield and much of its coverage centres on the town and the surrounding area. However, the newspaper also covers parts of the Peak District and Amber Valley areas.

The newspaper contains several supplements focusing on property, motoring, business and entertainment in the area.

The Derbyshire Times is the biggest selling weekly newspaper in the county and in Britain’s top ten for circulation.

Published in five editions - Chesterfield/Clay Cross, East, North East, Alfreton area, and Matlock/Peak is read by over 108,000 readers every week.^{[citation needed]}

The paper has a staff of over twenty journalists and photographers, along with a team of grass roots correspondents, to produce the Derbyshire Times and a stable of sister ‘free distribution’ papers in the north and mid Derbyshire area.

The Derbyshire Times (and Chesterfield Herald) first hit the streets on Saturday, January 7, 1854, and made history in 1893 when it became the first weekly newspaper in England to introduce the linotype setting machine.^{[citation needed]}

Later owned by the Edmunds family, the DT bought the Derbyshire Courier in 1922 and amalgamated two old rivals into one paper.^{[citation needed]}

In the 1970s ownership of the paper changed hands and it became the first acquisition in England of Edinburgh-based Johnston Press.

The paper switched from a broadsheet format to tabloid in March 1986 and entered the world of multimedia publishing in 1999 with the launch of its website.

Once a major print centre with its own presses the Derbyshire Times is now published at Johnston Press's Sheffield Web in Dinnington.