Newsquest

Newsquest Media Group Limited
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryMedia
Founded1995; 29 years ago (1995)
HeadquartersLondon, England, UK
Key people
Henry Faure Walker
(CEO)
ProductsNewspapers
Increase 114 million (2021)
Total assetsDecrease 61 million (2021)
Total equityIncrease 189 million (2021)
Number of employees
5,000
ParentGannett[1]
Websitenewsquest.co.uk

Newsquest Media Group Limited is the second largest publisher of regional and local newspapers in the United Kingdom. It is owned by the American mass media holding company Gannett.

It has 205 brands across the UK, publishing online and in print (165 newspaper brands and 40 magazine brands) and reaches 28 million visitors a month online and 6.5 million readers a week in print.

Based in London, Newsquest employs a total of more than 5,500 people across the UK. It also has a specialist arm that publishes both commercial and business-to-business (B2B) titles such as Insurance Times, The Strad and Boxing News.

  1. ^ Lombardo, Cara; Trachtenberg, Jeffrey A. (5 August 2019). "GateHouse Media Parent to Buy Gannett for $1.4 Billion". Wall Street Journal.