The Gazette has been published for over 140 years, and is the most widely read local newspaper in the Teesside area. It covers the Middlesbrough, Stockton and Redcar and Cleveland local authority districts, as well as the northernmost fringe of North Yorkshire. The paper is owned by the Trinity Mirror Group, which also owns the Gazette's Newcastle-based sister titles The Chronicle, The Journal and the Sunday Sun. It is based in Middlesbrough.