Bio

Background and Format: The Brentwood Gazette is a weekly newspaper covering local news, sport and events. It covers Brentwood & Romford, Billericay & Wickford and Ongar & North Weald. Audience and Readership: People in the Brentwood area Deadline: Monday 2PM Time of Publication: Wednesday Circulation: Source: ABC Supplements and sections: News Sport What's On Jobs Property Cars Directory Buy & Sell Dating Gaming Distribution: It is distributed throughout Ardleigh Green, Basildon, Bethnal Green, Billericay, Bishop's Stortford, Brentwood, Chelmsford, Chelmsford Rural, Chigwell, Chipping Ongar, Clacton, Colchester, Collier Row, Dagenham, Epping, Gidea Park, Grays, Hainault, Harold Hill, Harold Wood, Havering Atte Bower, Hornchurch, Ilford, Ingatestone, Loughton, Ockendon, Rainham, Rayleigh, Romford, Southend On Sea, Stanford Le Hope, Tilbury, Tiptree, Upminster, Wickford, Witham and Woodham Ferrers. Ad rates: For ad rates call +44 (0)1245 482 764 or email advertising@essexchronicle.co.uk Awards: 2014 - Regional Press Awards, Weekly Newspaper (below 20,000) (nominated) 2014 - Regional Press Awards, Front Page of the Year: ‘Man is killed by train, then this happened’ (nominated) 2013 - Regional Press Awards, Weekly Newspaper (Below 20,000) (winner) 2013 - EDF Energy East of England Media Awards, Weekly Paid for Newspaper of the Year (nominated) 2012 - Regional Press Awards, Weekly Newspaper (Below 20,000) (winner) 2012 - EDF Energy East of England Media Awards, Weekly Newspaper of the Year (Paid-for) (winner) 2011 - Regional Press Awards, Weekly Newspaper (below 20k), (Nominee) Other Information: An electronic edition can be found here. The sports desk can be reached on +44 (0)1245 602 737 The photo sales desk can be reached on +44 (0)8444 060 389 When Emailing at (newsdesk@essexlive.news) please ensure you put "Brentwood Gazette" in the subject so your email can get answered as quickly as possible.  For specific community stories you can contact them at: communitynews@gazettenews.co.uk Alerts: Gorkana Alert: Wednesday 19 December 2012 Local media business Local World has purchased the assets of former regional publishing groups Northcliffe Media and Iliffe News and Media. As a result, the new group now owns 16 daily newspapers, 36 paid-for weeklies, 40 free weeklies and 63 local websites. For full details of which publications have been acquired visit www.local-world.co.uk Gorkana Alert: Thursday 4 October 2012 The Brentwood Gazette has recruited 20 new columnists from the readers of the publication. For the last year, the newspaper has been running a ‘Reader Writer’ section which allows readers to send in articles to be published for free. This feature will now be extended to include 20 regular columnists, who will write for the paper on a monthly rota basis with up to four columns appearing each week. These columnists will all be from areas local to the publication and will not be paid for their contributions. For f