The newspaper was a daily morning publication for the first 118 years of its existence until falling circulation figures prompted a switch to a weekly schedule in 2011.

[6] The Lincolnshire Echo building was sold in April 2009 to the University of Lincoln and the paper moved slightly further down the same road to office space in Witham Wharf.

[7] The paper then moved to an office on Doddington Road in 2020,[8] before its journalists switched to remote work later that year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[10] Following the closure of the vast majority of Reach PLC's offices, similar agreements were signed in Leicester and Teesside.

[11] In 2012, Local World acquired owner Northcliffe Media from Daily Mail and General Trust.