{{Short description|Daily tabloid newspaper for the Wigan region}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Wigan Post | image = Wigan_Post_4_January_2020.jpg | caption = Front page from 4 January 2020 | type = Local [[newspaper]] | format = [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|Tabloid]] | founded = 1950s | language = [[English language|English]] | owners = [[National World]] | publisher = Lancashire Publications Ltd | headquarters = Wigan Investment Centre, Waterside Drive, Wigan | ISSN = 2514-0922 | website = {{URL|https://wigantoday.net}} | circulation = 731 | circulation_date = 2023 | circulation_ref = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.org.uk/product/19237 |title=Wigan Post News |publisher=[[Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)]] |date=19 February 2024 |access-date=19 May 2024}}</ref> }} The '''''Wigan Post''''' (formerly '''''Wigan Evening Post and Chronicle''''' and later just the '''''Wigan Evening Post''''') is a weekly (changed from daily in August 2021) tabloid British regional newspaper for [[Wigan]] in [[Greater Manchester]] (formerly in the traditional county of [[Lancashire]]). It is owned by [[National World]] and published by [[Lancashire Publications]], which has its offices in the town. The main area for the paper's distribution is around the [[Metropolitan Borough of Wigan]]. It is published on Fridays. It was founded in the 1950s as a subdivision of the [[Lancashire Evening Post]].<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-nw/wigan-evening-post/|title=Wigan Evening Post | British Newspapers Online|date=28 October 2013 }}</ref> The website which the Wigan Post shares with its sister papers is '''''Wigan Today'''''. It also has an app for IOS and Android devices.
==Sister papers== ===''Wigan Observer''=== The ''Wigan Observer'' is a weekly paid-for paper sold in the borough and is published each Tuesday. It was formed in 1853 as ''The Wigan Observer and District Advertiser'' and was family-run until 1966.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-nw/wigan-observer/|title=Wigan Observer | British Newspapers Online|date=26 October 2013 }}</ref>
===Freesheets=== The ''Wigan Reporter'' was a [[freesheet]] weekly paper delivered in the Wigan area. It was founded in 1978. It ceased publication in February 2017 with many of its supplements being incorporated into the Post instead.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2017/news/daily-drops-evening-from-name-as-sister-weekly-closes/|title=Second daily drops 'evening' from name as sister weekly closes | Hold The Front Page}}</ref> It also had two other freesheets, ''[[St Helens Reporter]]'' and ''Leigh Reporter'', which are published once per week.
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==External links== * [http://www.wigantoday.net/ Wigan Evening Post] * [https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2023/news/abcs-council-title-published-against-government-guidance-among-top-performers]
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