David Faulkner, a former managing director of Trinity Mirror Cheshire and North Wales who later became MD at rivals North Wales Newspapers Media, has died suddenly at the age of 71.
Well known in the business community in Chester, Faulkner spent 40 years in regional publishing after originally joining the Thomson Newspapers group as a management trainee.
He was for several years managing director of the Chester Chronicle group of titles owned by Trinity Mirror, now known as Reach PLC.
He went on to be managing director of Trinity Mirror Cheshire and North Wales, responsible for the growth of weekly newspapers across North Wales, Cheshire, Wirral and North Shropshire as well as the Daily Post Wales.
He then worked for Trinity in the Midlands before returning to Chester to become managing director of NWN Media Ltd – whose titles included The Leader and the North Wales Pioneer – in 2008, before it was bought by Newsquest last year.
Faulkner left the company in November 2017, but continued to work as a freelancer for Newsquest to help develop its contract printing business.
Chris Matheson, MP for Chester, said on Twitter he was “shocked and saddened” to hear of Faulkner’s passing.
