Archant is a publishing company, based in Norwich, England, United Kingdom. The group publishes four daily newspapers, around 75 weekly newspapers, and 75 consumer and contract magazines.

The Group employs around 2600 employees mainly in East Anglia, the Home Counties and the West Country and was known as Eastern Counties Newspapers, until March 2002.

History[link]

The company began publishing in Norwich in 1845 with Norfolk News, backed by Jacob Henry Tillet, Jeremiah Colman, John Copeman and Thomas Jarrold. The Colman and Copeman families still retain close involvement in the business.

The Eastern Weekly Press was launched in 1867 and in 1870 was renamed the Eastern Daily Press. A sister title, the Eastern Evening News was launched in 1882. As the business grew it moved premises in 1902, 1959 and again in the late 1960s to its present headquarters location at Prospect House in the centre of Norwich.

At the end of the 1960s, Eastern Counties Newspapers began its corporate expansion with the coming together of ECN with the East Anglian Daily Times Company to form Eastern Counties Newspapers Group (ECNG).

ECNG developed further with the launch of Community Media Limited in 1981, a weeklies publishing operation based in Bath, which launched and acquired titles in Scotland and the West Country.

In 1985, ECNG purchased the East Anglia-based Advertiser group of weekly free newspapers. These businesses operated as separate entities until the mid-1990s when they were brought together under the ECNG banner.

ECNG itself grew in 1993, when it bought four weekly newspapers in Huntingdon, Ely, Wisbech and March from Thomson. The acquisition of Peterhead-based P Scrogie followed shortly afterwards.

The company moved into Internet publishing in 1996 when it launched Eastern Counties Network, a Web-based service using copy from its four daily newspapers as well as original material. Later this was disaggregated into separate websites for each of the newspapers.

In April 1998, ECNG bought Home Counties Newspapers Holdings plc with an agreed bid of approximately £58m. The bid earned the company the nickname of "The News Corp. of East Anglia". HCNH published a range of 26 weekly paid and free titles across Greater London and the Home Counties. The title portfolio included the Hampstead & Highgate Express, the South Essex Recorder series, the Hertfordshire|Herts Advertiser series, the Comet series, the Herald group and the Welwyn & Hatfield Times.

Consumer magazine publisher Market Link Publishing, now Archant Specialist, based in Essex was acquired by ECNG for £5m in autumn 1999. Its titles now include Photography Monthly, Professional Photographer, Pilot and Sport Diver.

The launch of a county magazine in Norfolk in 2000 saw the beginning of what is now Archant Life, the country's biggest publisher of county magazines. The division was subsequently given scale through acquisitions in the North West, the Cotswolds and the South and South East of England.

In March 2002, ECNG changed its name to Archant, a move prompted by the broadening geographic scope and growing range of its activities.

In December 2003, Archant purchased 27 weekly newspapers from Independent News & Media in two separate deals worth up to £62m. The titles included the Hackney Gazette, Islington Gazette, the East London Advertiser, the Barking & Dagenham Post and the Kentish Times series.

In early 2005, Archant acquired two magazine publishers Romsey Publishing Group, which became part of Archant Specialist, and Highbury Local Publications, which became part of Archant Life and Archant London.

In summer 2005, Archant Anglia was merged with Archant Norfolk and the newly created Archant Herts & Cambs, a division of Archant Regional.

In early 2006, Metropolis Publishing's six London lifestyle magazine titles were added to the Archant Life stable. They were quickly joined by six county magazine titles in the Midlands from Advent Media.

In April 2007, Archant Scotland's eight newspaper titles were sold to Johnston Press for around £11m.

In February 2008, Archant acquired Compass Magazines and its four monthly regional magazines in Dorset, Hampshire and Surrey.

In September 2009, Archant Print completed an £8m project to bring its press centre in Norwich up to ten printing towers with associated equipment.

In November 2009, Archant launched Great British Life, a website portal.

In May 2010, Archant launched Cambridge First, a weekly newspaper in Cambridge.

In June 2010, Archant acquired KOS Media Publishing Ltd for an undisclosed sum.^[1] KOS Media publishes the award-winning Kent on Sunday, a series of free weekly newspapers, magazines, websites and mobile products.

Publications[link]

Daily Newspapers[link]

• East Anglian Daily Times
• Eastern Daily Press (EDP)
• Norwich Evening News
• Evening Star

Weekly Paid Newspapers[link]

• Barking & Dagenham Post — Barking & Dagenham, London
• Beccles and Bungay Journal — Beccles & Bungay
• Cambridgeshire Times — Cambridgeshire
• Dereham & Fakenham Times — Dereham & Fakenham
• East London Advertiser— East London
• Ely Standard — Ely
• Exmouth Journal — Exmouth
• Great Yarmouth Mercury — Great Yarmouth
• Green Un — an Ipswich-based Association football weekly
• Hackney Gazette — Hackney, London
• Hampstead & Highgate Express (Ham&High) — Hampstead & Highgate, London
• Highbury & Islington Express — Highbury & Islington, London
• Ilford Recorder — Ilford
• Islington Gazette — Islington, London
• Kent on Saturday - Kent
• Kent on Sunday - Kent
• Kilburn Times — Kilburn, London
• Lowestoft Journal — Lowestoft
• Newham Recorder — Newham, London
• North Norfolk News — North Norfolk
• The Pink'un — a Norwich-based Association football weekly
• Romford Recorder — Romford
• Sidmouth Herald — Sidmouth
• The Crow — Royston
• Hatfield Times — Welwyn & Hatfield
• The Weston & Somerset Mercury — Weston-super-Mare & Somerset
• Willesden & Brent Times — Willesden & Brent, London
• Wisbech Standard — Wisbech
• Wood & Vale — St John's Wood, Marylebone & Maida Vale, London

Weekly free newspapers[link]

• Diss Mercury— Diss
• Dunmow Broadcast & Recorder — Great Dunmow
• Herts Herald — East Hertfordshire
• Exmouth Herald — Exmouth
• The Advertiser — Coastal edition (East Suffolk)
• The Advertiser — Great Yarmouth edition
• The Advertiser — Ipswich edition
• The Advertiser — Norwich edition
• The Advertiser — North Norfolk edition
• The Advertiser — South Norfolk edition
• The Advertiser — Waveney edition
• Harlow, Old Harlow & Epping Herald — Harlow, Old Harlow & Epping
• Havering Post — Havering, London
• Herts Advertiser Series — St Albans & Harpenden
• Hunts Post — Huntingdon
• Midweek Herald — East Devon
• North Herts Comet Series — North Hertfordshire
• North Herts Herald — North Hertfordshire
• North Devon Gazette & Advertiser — North Devon
• North Somerset Times — North Somerset
• Property Extra
• Saffron Walden Reporter — Saffron Walden
• Sidmouth Herald — Sidmouth
• Stevenage Herald — Stevenage
• Tunbridge Wells on Saturday/Sunday - Royal Tunbridge Wells
• Watton Times — Thetford & Watton, Norfolk
• West Suffolk Mercury Series — West Suffolk
• Weston-super-Mare Admag — Weston-super-Mare
• Wymondham & Attleborough Mercury — Wymondham & Attleborough
• yourashford - Ashford, Kent
• yourcanterbury - Canterbury
• yourdeal - Deal, Kent
• yourdover - Dover
• yourmadistone - Maidstone
• yourmedway - Medway
• yoursandwich - Sandwich, Kent
• yourshepway - Shepway
• yourswale - Swale
• yourthanet - Thanet

External links[link]

• Archant website
• Great British Life website

References[link]

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Wayne Morgan (born October 7, 1950) was the Iowa State University men's basketball coach from (2003–2006). Morgan was hired after Larry Eustachy's resignation. He was Iowa State University’s first African American head basketball coach. Wayne Morgan was fired in March 2006 and was replaced by Greg McDermott, a native Iowan, and head coach of the University of Northern Iowa. In three years at Iowa State, Morgan had a combined record of 55-39, marking his record third to Larry Eustachy ( 72-26, two NCAA tournament appearances, one Elite eight appearance) and Tim Floyd (69-29, twice second round of NCAA tourney) in the history of Iowa State University basketball coaches finishing their 3rd year. During this time his team went to the NIT semifinals and the second round of the NCAA tournament where they were overpowered by the eventual national champions, North Carolina. Morgan's third year, struggling to rebuild the four and five positions was less spectacular, finishing with a 16-14 record overall, and marred by claims of lack of team control.

Wayne Morgan is the author of two DVD’s: Wayne Morgan: Mastering the 2-3 zone defense; and Wayne Morgan: The Philosophy of changing defenses and the 2-3 zone. Both feature his mastery of the 2-3 zone, much of what he learned as an assistant to Coach Jim Boeheim of Syracuse between 1984 and 1996.^[1] He also coached at Long Beach State for six seasons previous to accepting the head coaching position at Iowa State.

His up-tempo, exciting style of basketball generated doubt across the state but produced a memorable first season that featured a team which was playing its best basketball late in the season. ISU recorded 20 wins in Morgan's rookie season, tying for the ninth-best win total in school history. The 20 wins produced by Morgan, which is the second-best win total for an ISU coach in his first season at the helm, was just one of several highlights in his inaugural season.

The Cyclones were virtually unbeatable at home, going 17-1 in Hilton Coliseum. The 17 home wins was the second-highest home win tally in school history and the 94.4 percent home winning percentage is the fifth-best clip in the ISU annals. Three of ISU's 17 home wins were against teams that advanced to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen (Xavier, Kansas, Texas) and two were against instate rivals Iowa and Drake, helping ISU win its second consecutive mythical state championship. Morgan paced ISU to a NIT appearance, the school's 14th postseason bid in the last 21 years. The Cyclones caught fire in the NIT, defeating Georgia, Florida State and Marquette, earning a trip to New York City in the semifinals at Madison Square Garden.

One of Morgan's star players in his first season was Curtis Stinson, a fellow New Yorker who he recruited to ISU in his first season as an assistant with the Cyclones. Stinson was one of the best freshman in all of college basketball, earning Big 12 Freshman of the Year honors and first-team Freshman All-America accoladess by Basketball Times. Stinson and Jackson Vroman both earned third-team all-Big 12 honors in Morgan's first year. Vroman led the league in rebounding, becoming the first Cyclone to top the conference in boards since 1980. Morgan helped Vroman develop into one of the best centers in the nation in his final season with the Cyclones. His improvement enabled him get drafted in the second round of the 2004 NBA Draft as the No. 31 pick.

Morgan was tabbed as Iowa State University's 17th men's basketball coach May 14, 2003, bringing over 30 years of coaching and a proven track record of intercollegiate success. Morgan spent his first season in Ames as an assistant at Iowa State, joining the ISU basketball staff in July 2002. As an assistant on the 2002-03 Cyclone staff, Morgan helped ISU to an NIT berth, as ISU finished 17-14, tying for the 13th-best win total in school history. A top-notch recruiter, he was instrumental in helping the Cyclones sign a nationally ranked recruiting class in 2003 and 2004.

Morgan was involved in 12 NCAA Tournaments, seven regular-season conference titles, four NIT appearances and tutored numerous players who have gone on to NBA careers. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Morgan spent six years as head coach at Long Beach State, where he compiled a 91-84 overall mark and a 55-39 record in the Big West Conference before he was fired. Morgan coached three teams that finished first or second in the Big West Western Division. His 1999-2000 squad was 24-6 overall and 15-1 in the Big West en route to winning the conference championship. The 1999-2000 team was one of the best in LBSU history, qualifying for the National Invitation Tournament. It compiled the third-longest winning streak in school history (15 games), tied for the third-most wins in 49er history.

Morgan is now an assistant coach at Hofstra University.

Head coaching record[link]

References[link]