Prior to this restructuring, the two original newspapers had recently been re-launched in tabloid format.

A special Sunday edition of the Echo was published on 16 April 1989, for reporting on the previous day's Hillsborough disaster, in which 97 Liverpool F.C.

fans were fatally injured at the FA Cup semi-final tie in Sheffield.

The Sunday Echo is "a seventh day of publication, not an independent product", according to the paper.

In 2024, Liam Thorp, the paper's political editor, collaborated on a book titled "Head North: A Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain" with the metro mayors of Manchester and Liverpool, Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.