The Northern Echo

The Northern Echo is a regional daily morning <a href="/facts/Newspaper/q4waJGVL">newspaper</a> based in the town of <a href="/facts/Darlington/sLHFGJAt">Darlington</a> in North East England, serving mainly southern <a href="/facts/County_Durham/JFsQ70Hk">County Durham</a> and northern <a href="/facts/Yorkshire/jE4s4LNG">Yorkshire</a>. The paper covers national as well as regional news. In 2007, its then-editor claimed that it was one of the most famous provincial newspapers in the United Kingdom. Its first edition was published on 1 January 1870.
Its second editor was <a href="/facts/W._T._Stead/KQBcYha9">W. T. Stead</a>, the early pioneer of British <a href="/facts/Investigative_journalism/j4Rx2wDf">investigative journalism</a>, who earned the paper accolades from the leading <a href="/facts/Liberal_Party_(UK)/MzUNPLEr">Liberals</a> of the day, seeing it applauded as "the best paper in Europe." <a href="/facts/Harold_Evans/YPm3Iv1H">Harold Evans</a>, one of the great campaigning journalists of all time, was editor of The Northern Echo in the 1960s and argued the case for cervical smear tests for women. Evans agreed with Stead that reporting was "a very good way of attacking the devil".

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The Northern Echo