Southport Reporter

Southport Reporter is an online newspaper started by Patrick Trollope, is not only seen as a newspaperPublished in UK as the "UK's only web-based newspaper" in January 2005 in hard copy magazine called Web Pages Made Easy and on the Trade Mark Register as a newspaper No. 2292469 It is based in Southport on Merseyside, and was quickly recognised by the National Union of Journalists as well as other media groups,Named in a 2007 report in the Preston Citizen, . Also they are listed in the Hollis PR & Media Guide 2006. ISBN 1 904193 250 UK ISSN 1364-9000 and the Hollis PR & Media Guide 2004 and on the BBC page called This recognition was due to the fact it was only run by certificated professional journalists (often the journalist held NUJ or IFJ ID/certification). As a result they had to follow and run under the rules of the UK Press Complaints Commission's Code of Practice and the NUJ Code of Conduct.

The virtual newspaper's name was trademarked under the UK's Trade Mark Act 1994 Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as a newspaper, on 12 February 2002 under the registration No. 2292469.

Development history

The idea started when Patrick...
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