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CornwallLive is the leading digital news website for Cornwall, the county-wide online brand created by Trinity Mirror — now Reach plc — in November 2016. Based around Truro, the county's administrative centre and only city, the site is the online home of some of the oldest newspapers in the West Country: the West Briton, the Cornish Guardian and the Cornishman, together with Cornwall Today magazine. It brings rolling news, sport, entertainment and What's On coverage to the far south-west of England, from Bude on the north coast to Penzance at the tip of the peninsula.
Launched as part of the great digital consolidation of the British regional press, CornwallLive replaced the separate websites of eight local newspaper titles with a single county platform built around hyperlocal "In Your Area" sections. Owned by Reach plc, the UK's largest commercial news publisher, it combines the heritage of Cornish newspapers — whose reporters, the site notes, have been covering the county for some 200 years — with the high-volume digital publishing model of the "Live" network. It is edited, according to its professional profile, by Jacqui Merrington.
CornwallLive was launched in November 2016, one of two county-wide websites unveiled by Trinity Mirror that month alongside Lincolnshire Live. The launch continued the publisher's strategy of creating online brands covering entire counties rather than individual newspapers' patches — a trend that had already produced Essex Live, Kent Live, Gloucestershire Live and Somerset Live.
The new site was formed from the merger of eight different local newspaper websites. It became the online home of the West Briton, the Cornish Guardian and the Cornishman — titles with deep roots in Cornish life — while the company's Lincolnshire titles were similarly consolidated. Trinity Mirror said no jobs were affected by the changes, and its digital publishing director, David Higgerson, argued that the model of hyperlocal news on a county-wide platform was working well, with local readers consuming more news on the company's platforms, reading for longer and returning more often.
The timing reflected the economics of the regional press: maintaining separate websites for each weekly newspaper had become unsustainable, while a single county brand could aggregate audiences to a scale attractive to advertisers. The launch also positioned Trinity Mirror against emerging rivals in the South West, where the independent publisher Archant was preparing to launch competing titles.
CornwallLive describes itself as the leading news, sport, entertainment and information website for Cornwall, bringing readers everything they need to know about the county "live and as it happens." Its coverage spans breaking news, Cornish politics — including Cornwall Council, the unitary authority based in Truro — the courts, health, education, business and the rural and coastal economy, alongside sport and a large What's On operation.
Cornwall's distinctive identity shapes the editorial agenda: tourism, the seasonal economy, second homes and housing pressure, the fishing industry, farming, the environment and the campaign for greater Cornish devolution all feature prominently. The site's "In Your Area" tabs allow readers to filter coverage to towns and villages across the duchy, from the surfing towns of the north coast to the former mining districts of the interior.
As the digital home of the West Briton, Cornish Guardian and Cornishman, the site carries forward the community reporting traditions of those papers — the parish-level news, the agricultural shows, the lifeboat launches — while adding the rolling digital coverage expected of a modern news website.
CornwallLive is owned by Reach plc, the London Stock Exchange-listed publisher created as Trinity Mirror in 1999 and renamed in 2018. Reach is the UK's largest commercial news publisher, with national titles including the Daily Mirror, Daily Express and Daily Star and regional brands from the Manchester Evening News to the Liverpool Echo. Its regional portfolio was greatly expanded by the 2015 purchase of Local World, which brought 87 titles into the group.
The site is funded through digital advertising — display, newsletter and content marketing — sold both locally and as part of Reach's national and regional packages. The company's scale, with more than 38 million monthly visitors across its online network, allows it to offer advertisers county-level targeting within a brand-safe, professionally produced environment.
Reach has continued to invest in its South West operation. In 2020 the company created five new jobs across Devon and Cornwall with the launch of dedicated Truro Live, Torbay Live and Exeter Live sections within Cornwall Live and Devon Live — a sign of confidence in the county sites' growth, with the company reporting year-on-year audience growth of 70 per cent for Cornwall Live at the time.
CornwallLive practises the digital-first local journalism of the Reach "Live" network: rolling news throughout the day, live blogs for breaking stories and major events, and a strong emphasis on social distribution, particularly Facebook. Its reporters are multimedia journalists producing text, photography and video for web, app and social platforms.
The editorial mix combines hard local news — crime, courts, councils, the NHS — with the lifestyle, property, nostalgia and What's On content that drives digital audiences. Cornwall's dramatic coastline, food scene, festivals and celebrity connections provide rich material for the latter, while the county's structural challenges — seasonal employment, housing affordability, transport links, health service pressures — anchor the former.
The site's editor-in-chief for the South West at Reach has described the regional approach as being first with the news, campaigning for the region and "not being afraid to have a smile" with readers — a formula that captures the blend of seriousness and accessibility the Live sites aim for.
Cornwall has a population of around 570,000, swollen significantly by tourists in summer, and CornwallLive is positioned as the digital news source for all of them. In 2020 Reach reported that Cornwall Live and Devon Live each attracted more than 100,000 readers a month, with readers of the two sites viewing a combined 25 million pages a month — figures that illustrated the scale the county-brand strategy had achieved.
The Cornwall Live app, developed by Reach plc, extends the brand onto mobile with breaking-news alerts, personalised content and interactive features including comments and polls. It has achieved more than 10,000 installs on Android with a strong average rating of 4.71 from over 900 ratings, indicating a loyal core of app users.
Reach has noted that the South West is one of the busiest regions for usage of In Your Area, its hyperlocal information platform — suggesting that Cornish readers are particularly engaged with neighbourhood-level news and information.
CornwallLive was among the county sites upgraded to Trinity Mirror's responsive "Chameleon" publishing platform in 2017, which adapted automatically to desktop, tablet and mobile, loaded articles twice as quickly and improved the impact of live blogs. The upgrade reflected the centrality of mobile to the Live sites' audience, much of which arrives via social media on phones.
The Cornwall Live app offers the full digital toolkit: breaking-news push notifications, a customisable feed, article sharing, commenting, polls and save-for-later reading. The emphasis on personalisation — "design your feed to fit you" — reflects the industry-wide shift toward owned-audience relationships.
The 2020 launch of the dedicated Truro Live section within Cornwall Live, alongside new community reporter roles in Cornwall, showed the model evolving back toward greater hyperlocal depth within the county-wide platform — an attempt to combine the scale of the county brand with the granularity readers value.
CornwallLive's journalism spans the issues that define modern Cornwall: the housing crisis and the politics of second homes, the seasonal tourism economy, the fishing industry's post-Brexit adjustment, the duchy's environmental challenges, and the long-running campaign for a devolution deal giving Cornwall greater control over its affairs.
The site covers Cornwall Council — the unitary authority that governs most of the county from Truro — along with the courts, the NHS trusts serving the peninsula, and the emergency services whose work, from cliff rescues to storm damage, is a staple of Cornish news. Major events, from the Royal Cornwall Show to Boardmasters festival, receive extensive live coverage.
Its reporters also draw on the deep community roots of the legacy titles: the West Briton, Cornish Guardian and Cornishman have covered their patches for generations, and their journalism — from agricultural news to town council reports — continues within the CornwallLive platform.
By consolidating the digital presence of Cornwall's historic newspapers, CornwallLive has preserved a professional newsroom presence across a large, rural and often remote county where the economics of standalone weekly websites had failed. Its journalists cover the courts, councils and community stories that hold local power to account and bind communities together.
The site's scale gives Cornish issues a wider platform: campaigns on housing, health services and infrastructure reach audiences across the county and attract the attention of decision-makers in Truro, Westminster and beyond. The dedicated Truro Live section and community reporter roles created in 2020 deepened the site's presence in the county town and surrounding communities.
For a county with a fiercely independent identity, the existence of a dedicated, high-traffic Cornish news platform matters culturally as well as journalistically — a digital town square for a dispersed population.
CornwallLive continues as one of Reach's established county brands, with its app receiving regular updates through 2026 and its newsroom continuing to serve the county daily. The site operates within Reach's broader regional strategy, which has seen the "Live" network extended across England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland since the pioneering launch of BelfastLive in 2015.
The challenges facing the site mirror those of the regional press nationally: sustaining advertising revenue in a market dominated by global platforms, converting social-media reach into loyal direct audiences, and maintaining reporting depth across a large rural patch. Its 200-year journalistic inheritance — the reporters and photographers of the West Briton, Cornish Guardian and Cornishman tradition — remains its distinguishing asset in meeting those challenges.
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