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J O U R N A L I S M W E E K LY<br />
www.pressgazette.co.uk 8 March 2013<br />
Johnston Press faces<br />
boycott threat over<br />
editor axe proposal<br />
BY AURELIA SEIDLHOFER<br />
Johnston Press is facing the threat of a<br />
reader boycott over its proposal to make<br />
popular Whitby Gazette editor Jon Stokoe<br />
redundant – despite the paper being one<br />
of just 13 weekly circulation risers in the<br />
UK.<br />
An online petition launched by Press<br />
Gazette yesterday has been signed by<br />
more than 500 people and the locally-<br />
started #saveourstokoe hashtag on<br />
Twitter was retweeted hundreds of times.<br />
Many of those who took to the site<br />
yesterday were urging people not to buy<br />
the paper until Stokoe is reinstated.<br />
It emerged on Wednesday that Stokoe<br />
was facing the axe from Johnston despite<br />
being at the helm of the UK's fifth fastest<br />
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