The News Guardian is a free weekly newspaper covering three main areas of North Tyneside

North Tyneside

The Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside is a metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England and is part of the Tyneside conurbation. Its seat is Wallsend Town Hall....

, a metropolitan district in north east England. It serves Whitley Bay

Whitley Bay

Whitley Bay is a town in North Tyneside, in Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the North Sea coast and has a fine stretch of golden sandy beach forming a bay stretching from St. Mary's Island in the north to Cullercoats in the south...

, North Shields

North Shields

North Shields is a town on the north bank of the River Tyne, in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, in North East England...

 and Wallsend

Wallsend

Wallsend is an area in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. Wallsend derives its name as the location of the end of Hadrian's Wall. It has a population of 42,842.-Romans:...

 with news, sport, entertainment as well as regular property and motoring supplements.

The News Guardian series is owned by Sunderland-based Northeast Press Limited, a subsidiary of Johnston Press

Johnston Press

Johnston Press plc is a newspaper publishing company headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland. Its flagship titles are The Scotsman and the Yorkshire Post; it also operates many other newspapers around the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and the Isle of Man. It is the second-largest publisher...

 Ltd. The current News Guardian is a product of three newspaper mergers, The Whitley Bay Guardian (formerly known as the Seaside Chronicle), the Shields Weekly News and the Wallsend News. It has a distribution of around 68,000 copies.

It has a proud tradition of developing new journalistic talent and is affiliated to the National Council for the Training of Journalists

National Council for the Training of Journalists

The National Council for the Training of Journalists was founded in 1951 as an organisation to oversee the training of journalists for the newspaper industry in the United Kingdom and is now playing a role in the wider media.-Purpose:...

. The Editor is Ian Arkle.

Over the years the newspaper has reported some of the biggest stories to hit the north east including the Meadow Well Riots

Meadow Well Riots

The Meadow Well Riots were a series of violent protests that took place on 9 September 1991 on the Meadow Well council estate, east of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.The estate was built in the 1930s to accommodate low income residents from nearby North Shields...

 on September 9 1991, the decline of the ship yards on the Tyne, and the long-running police investigation into the Sara Cameron murder - the 21-year-old Finnish student found dead in Whitley Bay on April 28 2001. At the time the newspaper offered a reward as part of its coverage.

The newspaper is produced from its offices in Whitley Bay. It is printed on the presses of the Sunderland Echo

Sunderland Echo

The Sunderland Echo is an evening newspaper serving the Sunderland, South Tyneside and East Durham areas of North East England. The newspaper was founded by Samuel Storey, Edward Backhouse, Edward Temperley Gourley, Charles Palmer, Richard Ruddock, Thomas Glaholm and Thomas Scott Turnbull in 1873,...

 at Pennywell

Pennywell

Pennywell is one of the UK's largest post-war social housing schemes, and is situated in the central-west area of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, North East England. Pennywell is the largest local authority housing estate in the City of Sunderland...

, along with all Johnston titles in the region.