The Henley Standard is a weekly newspaper based in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. It is published by Higgs Group and is one of only a few independently-owned local newspapers in the UK. It is also the only newspaper dedicated entirely to Henley and the surrounding villages.
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Higgs Group |
| Editor | Phil Simms |
| Founded | 1885 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Station Road, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire |
| Circulation | 11,428[1] |
| Website | henleystandard |
The Standard covers Henley town and an area of south Oxfordshire as far as Watlington, Benson and Goring-on-Thames, as well as Caversham and Wargrave in Berkshire and the Hambleden valley in Buckinghamshire. The paper's circulation is about 10,000 copies a week and it claims a readership of about 35,000.[2] It is owned by the Luker family and the editor is Phil Simms [3]
The predecessor of the Henley Standard, first published in 1885, was The Henley Free Press. It became the Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard in 1892. Its name was shortened in 1956 to the Henley Standard.[2]
The Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard was the first organ to publish works by the author George Orwell. These were poems that the author, under his real name Eric Blair, wrote aged 10 on the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 and also on the death of Lord Kitchener in 1916.
Awards
editIn 2019, the Henley Standard was the named the UK's best smaller paid-for weekly of the year in the Society of Editors' Regional Press Awards. It was praised for having "maintained its tradition of solid, in-depth reporting with a variety of news, features, diary items, investigations and campaigns."[4]
References
edit- ^ "Newspaper Report for the publication:- Henley Standard". The Newspaper Society. Archived from the original on 21 February 2009. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
- ^ a b Henley Business Awards 2007 Archived 20 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Standard appoints new editor". Henley Standard. 13 August 2024.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Regional Press Awards Winners – Society of Editors". Retrieved 14 May 2022.
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