Johnston Press is turning five of its daily newspapers – including the Halifax Courier, Scarborough Evening News and the Northampton Chronicle & Echo – into weeklies, as part of a radical shakeup of the regional publisher by chief executive Ashley Highfield.
The company said in a stock market announcement on Monday that this was the first phase in each of its 170 paid-for newspapers being relaunched by the end of 2012 as part of a move to "platform neutral" publishing.
