| Type | Seasonal newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Terry Jackson, Steven Potter |
| Editor | Roger Thomas |
| Founded | 1 August 1988 |
| Political alignment | Apolitical |
| Ceased publication | 30 June 2005 |
| Headquarters | Cae Rhys, Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, Wales, UK |
| Website | http://www.cottenham.info/cottenham-this-week.html |
'THIS WEEK'[1] was the free national tourism newspaper for Wales published between 1988 and 2005, established by Steven Potter and Terry Jackson to provide Local Knowledge Nationwide to visitors. It laid claim to being the first colour tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom using new, digital pre-press technology on an Apple Macintosh 512K desktop computer, a claim that remains undisputed. It laid further claim in 1995 to being the first newspaper published online, to extend local knowledge Worldwide using the original Netscape Navigator v1.0 web browser within months of its 14 December 1994 launch.
Despite these early successes, the newspaper faced the same challenge as its elder contemporaries in making well-curated content pay on the World Wide Web while maintaining a traditional print presence, costly by comparison. The last edition of the newspaper appeared in 2005 under its associated Staying in Wales masthead with a new "Insight" magazine supplement featuring The Countryside–Y Cefn Gwlad while THIS WEEK went into hibernation for an indefinite period of time. The newspaper's founders went their separate ways: Steven Potter leaving Wales for London in 1995 to set up LondonTown.com; Terry Jackson remaining in Wales to develop the beta Wales.info open web platform and the newspaper's online presence, realised seventeen years later in 2022 as a new collaborative journalism project.