The EDP - from newsheet to online

The Eastern Daily Press began life on October 10, 1870 as a four-page newspaper published from Exchange Street, Norwich. It was a descendant of the Norwich Post, believed to have been the first English provincial newsheet published in 1701 "near the Red Well" - probably near the top of what is now Redwell Street.

Near the Red Well

In 1714, the Norwich Mercury began in London Street (then known as Cockey Lane) where it remained for 158 years. It was one of many newsheets that grew in Norwich.

Today, the EDP is England's best selling morning provincial newspaper, having won many awards for excellence in content and design over the years.

With an average daily sale of 80,000, it covers Norfolk, North Suffolk, and parts of Cambridgeshire. Based in Prospect House, opposite Norwich castle, since the late '60s, the EDP is part of Archant Regional which has a network of local offices with more than 90 district reporters and photographers, 90 field sales staff and over 1,000 local correspondents - no other local or regional media comes close to having this number of people living and working in the community.

This makes Archant - as a private limited company - among Britain's top ten largest newspaper publishers not owned by a major group.

EDP24, launched in February 2001, however, contains much of the content that can be found in the paper as well as from its Saturday Magazine and The Business magazine.