Editing Wales (section)

===Media===
{{Main|Media in Wales}}
{{see also|List of newspapers in Wales|Radio in Wales|Television in Wales}}
[[File:Filming "Torchwood" in Cardiff (2).jpg|thumb|A number of BBC productions, such as ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[Torchwood]]'', have been filmed in Wales.]]
Wales became the UK's first [[digital television]] nation in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Turner |first=Helen |date=1 April 2010 |title=Celebration for UK's first digital country |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2010/04/01/celebration-for-uk-s-first-digital-country-91466-26152342/ |access-date=25 November 2010 |website=[[WalesOnline]] website |publisher=[[Media Wales|Media Wales Ltd]]}}</ref> [[BBC Cymru Wales]] is the national broadcaster,<ref name="BBC amdanyn nhw">{{Cite web |year=2010 |title=About BBC Cymru Wales |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/info/ |access-date=30 September 2010 |website=[[BBC]] website |publisher=BBC}}</ref> producing both television and radio programmes in Welsh and English.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About the BBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/cymruwales/about |access-date=15 May 2020 |website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> It has also produced programmes such as ''[[Life on Mars (British TV series)|Life on Mars]]'', ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[Torchwood]]'' for BBC's network audience across the United Kingdom.<ref name="BBC amdanyn nhw" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=18 March 2008 |title=Bafta TV award nominees announced |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/2008/03/18/bafta-tv-award-nominees-announced-91466-20639892/ |access-date=30 September 2010 |website=[[WalesOnline]] website |publisher=[[Media Wales|Media Wales Ltd]]}}</ref> [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]], the UK's main commercial broadcaster, has a Welsh-orientated service branded [[ITV Cymru Wales]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 June 2014 |title=ITV begins broadcasting from new Wales HQ in Cardiff Bay |url=https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2014-06-30/itv-begins-broadcasting-from-new-wales-hq-in-cardiff-bay/ |access-date=15 May 2020 |website=ITV News}}</ref> [[S4C]] began broadcasting in 1982. Its output was mostly in Welsh at peak hours, but shared English-language content with [[Channel 4]] at other times. Since the [[digital television transition|digital switchover]] the channel has broadcast exclusively in Welsh.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=ap Dyfrig |first1=Rhodri |last2=Jones |first2=George |year=2006 |title=The Welsh Language in the Media |url=http://www.aber.ac.uk/~merwww/images/MonograffCymraeg231006.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611232439/http://www.aber.ac.uk/~merwww/images/MonograffCymraeg231006.pdf |archive-date=11 June 2011 |access-date=25 November 2010 |website=Mercator Institute for Media, Languages and Culture |publisher=[[Aberystwyth University]] |pages=13–14}}</ref> [[BBC Radio Cymru]] is the BBC's Welsh-language radio service, which broadcasts throughout Wales.<ref name="BBC amdanyn nhw" /> A number of independent radio stations broadcast in the Welsh regions, predominantly in English. In 2006, several regional radio stations broadcast in Welsh: output ranged from two two-minute news bulletins each weekday ([[Radio Maldwyn]]) to over 14 hours of Welsh-language programmes weekly ([[Swansea Sound]]) to essentially bilingual stations such as [[Heart Cymru]] and [[Radio Ceredigion]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=ap Dyfrig |first1=Rhodri |last2=Jones |first2=George |year=2006 |title=The Welsh Language in the Media |url=http://www.aber.ac.uk/~merwww/images/MonograffCymraeg231006.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611232439/http://www.aber.ac.uk/~merwww/images/MonograffCymraeg231006.pdf |archive-date=11 June 2011 |access-date=25 November 2010 |website=Mercator Institute for Media, Languages and Culture |publisher=[[Aberystwyth University]] |pages=16–18}}</ref>

Most of the newspapers sold and read in Wales are national newspapers available throughout Britain. The ''[[Western Mail (Wales)|Western Mail]]'' is Wales's only print national daily newspaper.<ref name="BBC papurau">{{cite news |date=28 August 2010 |title=Concern over newspapers' decline in Wales |work=[[BBC News]] website |publisher=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11111396 |access-date=25 November 2010}}</ref> Wales-based regional daily newspapers include the ''[[Daily Post (North Wales)|Daily Post]]'' (which covers North Wales), the ''[[South Wales Evening Post]]'' (Swansea), the ''[[South Wales Echo]]'' (Cardiff), and the ''[[South Wales Argus]]'' (Newport).<ref name="BBC papurau" /> ''[[Y Cymro]]'' is a Welsh-language newspaper, published weekly.<ref name="Mercator">{{cite web |last1=ap Dyfrig |first1=Rhodri |last2=Jones |first2=George |year=2006 |title=The Welsh Language in the Media |url=http://www.aber.ac.uk/~merwww/images/MonograffCymraeg231006.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611232439/http://www.aber.ac.uk/~merwww/images/MonograffCymraeg231006.pdf |archive-date=11 June 2011 |access-date=25 November 2010 |website=Mercator Institute for Media, Languages and Culture |publisher=[[Aberystwyth University]] |pages=22–23}}</ref> ''Wales on Sunday'' is the only Welsh Sunday newspaper that covers the whole of Wales.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Luft |first=Oliver |date=12 November 2010 |title=Wales on Sunday to unveil redesign this weekend |url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=46290 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616120311/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=46290 |archive-date=16 June 2011 |access-date=25 November 2010 |website=[[Press Gazette]] website |publisher=[[Press Gazette]]}}</ref> The [[Books Council of Wales]] is the Welsh-Government-funded body tasked with promoting Welsh literature in Welsh and English.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Alun Ffred AC/AM |date=4 March 2010 |title=Remit letter for the Welsh Books Council 2010–11 |url=http://wales.gov.uk/docs/drah/publications/20100304welshbookscouncilremitlettereng.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110222124627/http://wales.gov.uk/docs/drah/publications/20100304welshbookscouncilremitlettereng.pdf |archive-date=22 February 2011 |access-date=25 November 2010 |publisher=[[Welsh Government]]}}</ref> The BCW provides publishing grants for qualifying English- and Welsh-language publications.<ref>{{Cite web |year=2009 |title=What is the Welsh Books Council? |url=http://www.cllc.org.uk/hafan-home?diablo.lang=eng |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703202341/http://www.cllc.org.uk/hafan-home?diablo.lang=eng |archive-date=3 July 2017 |access-date=25 November 2010 |website=[[Welsh Books Council]] website |publisher=[[Welsh Books Council]]}}</ref> Around 650 books are published each year, by some of the dozens of Welsh publishers.<ref name="Llyfrau">{{Cite web |last1=ap Dyfrig |first1=Rhodri |last2=Jones |first2=George |year=2006 |title=The Welsh Language in the Media |url=http://www.aber.ac.uk/~merwww/images/MonograffCymraeg231006.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611232439/http://www.aber.ac.uk/~merwww/images/MonograffCymraeg231006.pdf |archive-date=11 June 2011 |access-date=25 November 2010 |website=Mercator Institute for Media, Languages and Culture |publisher=[[Aberystwyth University]] |page=34}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=22 November 2010 |title=Y Fasnach Lyfrau Ar-Lein – Welsh Book Trade Info |url=http://www.wbti.org.uk/directorydetails.html?id=10100 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001123042/http://www.wbti.org.uk/directorydetails.html?id=10100 |archive-date=1 October 2011 |access-date=25 November 2010 |website=[[Welsh Books Council]] website |publisher=[[Welsh Books Council]]}}</ref> Wales's main publishing houses include [[Gomer Press]], [[Gwasg Carreg Gwalch]], [[Honno (press)|Honno]], the [[University of Wales Press]] and [[Y Lolfa]].<ref name="Llyfrau"/> Journals with a Welsh focus include ''Cambria'' (a Welsh affairs magazine published bi-monthly in English),<ref>{{Cite news |date=24 October 2005 |title=Phone fault hits Welsh magazine |work=[[BBC News]] website |publisher=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/4371472.stm |access-date=25 November 2010}}</ref> ''Planet,'' and ''[[Poetry Wales]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |year=2010 |title=About |url=http://poetrywales.co.uk/wp/about/ |access-date=25 November 2010 |website=[[Poetry Wales]] website |publisher=[[Poetry Wales]]}}; {{Cite web |year=2010 |title=Planet: The International Magazine for Wales |url=http://www.planetmagazine.org.uk/html/newsite/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100413110021/http://www.planetmagazine.org.uk/html/newsite/index.htm |archive-date=13 April 2010 |access-date=25 November 2010 |website=[[Poetry Wales]] website |publisher=[[Poetry Wales]]}}</ref> Welsh-language magazines include the current affairs titles ''[[Golwg]]'' ("View"), published weekly, and ''[[Barn (Welsh magazine)|Barn]]'' ("Opinion"), published monthly.<ref name="Mercator" /> ''Y Wawr'' ("The Dawn") is published quarterly by ''[[Merched y Wawr]]'', the national organisation for women.<ref name="Mercator" /> ''[[Y Traethodydd]]'' ("The Essayist"), a quarterly publication by the [[Presbyterian Church of Wales]], first appeared in 1845 and is the oldest Welsh publication still in print.<ref name="Mercator" />