Chris Bullivant

Chris Bullivant, 2011

Chris Bullivant is a British newspaper publisher who with his wife Pat launched the UK's first free daily title, the Daily News, in October 1984.[1]

Having set up in excess of 74 newspapers, the Bullivants have now sold off much of their business but still run Bullivant Media, which in 2011 was the 15th-largest newspaper publisher in the country.[2] They continue to publish weekly newspapers across Warwickshire, Worcestershire and parts of the West Midlands in the southern conurbations around Birmingham and they also publish various award winning magazines [3] including Your Wedding, InsideOut, Flavour and Exclusive Homes.

In 2010 Bullivant launched a part paid-for weekly newspaper in Birmingham. Called the Birmingham Press,[4] and accompanied by a free edition, The Birmingham Free Press, it was intended to rival Trinity Mirror's Birmingham Post,[5] but after only a few months the paper went into liquidation with total debts of £347,796.[6] Bullivant blamed the newspaper's collapse on a lack of support from estate agents advertising in the city.[7]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Franklin (2013), Chapter 14
  2. ↑ Newspaper Society Intelligence unit 1 Jan 2011
  3. ↑ Newspaper Society Intelligence unit 1 Jan 2011
  4. ↑ Jon Slattery (2010-06-22). "Jon Slattery: Chris Bullivant launches Birmingham Free Press". Jon Slattery. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
  5. ↑ "Bullivant: Birmingham Press will work or it's my Waterloo". Press Gazette. 2010-04-23. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
  6. ↑ "Bullivant Pays Out Just 2p in the Pound", Birmingham Mail, 14 July 2012, retrieved 18 November 2013 – via HighBeam (subscription required)
  7. ↑ "Bullivant admits defeat in Brum newspaper war", HoldtheFrontPage, 8 October 2010, retrieved 18 November 2013

Bibliography

  • Franklin, Bob (2013), "A right free for all! Competition, soundbite journalism and developments in the local free press", in Franklin, Bob, Local Journalism and Local Media: Making the Local News (Google eBook), Routledge, ISBN 978-1-134-18119-3 

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