North-West Evening Mail

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The North-West Evening Mail is a daily, local newspaper in the United Kingdom, printed every evening. It is based in Barrow-in-Furness.

Although its title suggests a larger area, it in fact only covers news in South Cumbria. Typically, this is Furness, Ulverston, Windermere, Millom, and some of the more notable stories from Kendal and Copeland.

It is in a tabloid style, and has four separate editions, Barrow Early, Barrow Late Final, Ulverston and South Lakes, and Millom: although the only difference is on the front page and page six; the remainder of the paper is the same throughout. Articles typically range between important local news items, (such as major council decisions, local business news, etc), to more personal stories about residents of the area. Many believe the paper is instrumental in highlighting the shortcomings of the local authority, Barrow Borough Council, having done a very efficient job exposing Local Authority incompetence over the recent Legionellosis outbreak.

The Evening Mail is printed and published by Furness Newspapers Ltd. a subsidiary of Carlisle-based media company CN Group Ltd. Current circulation is around 20,000 copies a day within South Cumbria including Barrow, Dalton and Broughton in Furness, Coniston, Ulverston, Windermere, Grange over Sands, Millom and Ambleside. Market penetration is at its highes in its core area of Barrow and Dalton, at almost 50 per cent of households and at its lowest in Ambleside.

Jonathan Lee is the latest editor of the paper taking up the position in March 2008. Lee was previously editor of the Shetland Times but left the newspaper after newsroom staff passed a vote of no confidence in him[1] [2] [3] [4]. Previous editors of the NWEM include Steve Brauner, Sara Hadwin, Donald Martin, Keith Sutton, and Tom Welsh, co-author with Walter Greenwood of McNae's Essential Law for Journalists.