The series does include papers in places such as Coalville, Castle Donington and Long Eaton, but the biggest 'beast' of the pack is the Loughborough and Shepshed Echo.
Anyways, here at the Echo we are ready to embrace all things web (a little late, we'd admit) and so we've encouraged reporters, editors and other members of staff to get blogging.
You'll find links on this page for all the other Echo blogs as well as the website www.loughboroughecho.net where you'll find news, sport and comment from the paper.
Now the public information bit is out of the way, what is 'Tales From The Newsroom'? Well I'm hoping to give anyone who's interested (and my mum!) a glimpse into the workings of a weekly newspaper.
How is is produced? What do we do? Who does what? Why did we do that? When are we going to do this? Where exactly is Nanpantan? That type of thing.
I'll also cover the thinking (or maybe lack of) that goes into deciding what we put in the paper.
But these blogs are not a one-way street and here at the Echo we are painfully aware we don't know it all. We do know some things. At times. Depends on the day of the week, I guess. So please feel free to post your comments. We want you to. Really, I mean it.
Because if you continue to read my ramblings, and I hope that at least a dozen of you do, you'll quickly realise that we need you like a Russian billionaire needs a good divorce lawyer.
You, the reader, are essential. The paper is about you, for you. You ARE the paper. As I'm now in danger of being sucked into a blackhole of existentialism, I'd better finish soon while I'm just a lap behind.
I won't be banging on about the paper all the time. There's going to be other stuff too. As soon as I know what that will be, I'll let you know.
