TheTownsville Bulletinis a dailynewspaperpublished inTownsville,Queensland,Australia,formerly known as theTownsville Daily Bulletin.It is the only daily paper that serves thenorthern Queenslandregion. The paper has a print edition, a subscription digital edition and a website.[2]
 Front page of theTownsville Bulletin 6 October 2007 | |
| Type | Monday - Saturdaynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | News Corp Australia[1] |
| Publisher | Queensland Newspapers |
| Editor | Cas Garvey |
| Founded | 1881 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Townsville,Australia Shop 2, 62 Walker St TownsvilleQLD4810 |
| Circulation | 84,000 Monday-Friday 104,000 Saturday |
| Website | townsvillebulletin.com.au |
The newspaper is published by The North Queensland Newspaper Company Pty Ltd, which has been a subsidiary ofNews Limitedsince 1984.[3][4]News Limited is Australia's largest newspaper publisher and a subsidiary ofNews Corporationassociated withRupert Murdoch.
TheBulletinis published Monday through Saturday, with a higher price on the Saturday edition.[5]It is intabloid format.
History
editThe town of Townsville's early newspaper wasThe Cleveland Bay Herald and Northern Pioneerwhich came into existence on 3 March 1866, which was soon renamed as theCleveland Bay Express,and later became theTownsville Herald.[6]TheTownsville Bulletinwas then established on 5 September 1881 by Edward Rhode, John Kiley Mehan (–1941) and Dodd Smith Clarke (–July 1918).[7][6][8]Rhode, Mehan, and Clarke had previously started a newspaper inCairns.[9]
Co-founder and first editor Clarke was credited as 'mainly instrumental through his brilliant writings in making the venture the success it proved'.[10][11]It was priced at three pence, a 50% reduction on that of the two other local newspapers, and became a daily publication on 1 January 1883.[8]Out of this, theNorth Queensland Bulletinwas launched as a weekly journal by mid-1883.[8]
With the formation of the Townsville Newspaper Company in 1884, theTownsville Heraldwas acquired, and later merged into theBulletin.[8]It would appear as theNorth Queensland Herald.
TheBulletinoffices were first in a premises on the eastern side of Stokes Street, before moving to a larger premises at south-eastern corner of Flinders and Stanley Streets from 1887 to 1896. The company then moved to the south-western corner of the intersection, until November 1908 when they moved further west on Flinders Street to a two-story building.[8]Prior to air conditioning systems, the building was selected for cool air flow, and had installed an electric fan system.
The original newspaper was printed on a doubledemyAlbion hand press,followed about 1883 by a gas engine powering a small single feeder Inglis machine – which printed two pages at a time, resulting in 250 newspapers an hour – before settling on a Cox Duplexrotaryself-feeding and folding machine, able to turn out 1000 eight-page broadsheet by 1909.[8]Electricity had also been installed, but with gas lighting maintained in case of emergency.
Staffing-wise, the 1881 start saw three proprietors and a boy; by 1909, eight staff had over twenty years service with the company.[8]
A fire of the premises on 18 October 1912 destroyed much of the newspaper's early records.[12]Described as completely gutted other than for the strong-room, insurance amounts totalled £13,680.[13]The newspaper continued for the moment between theEvening StarandNorthern Mineroffices.[14]
TheBulletinwas later amalgamated withThe Northern Miner,[6]and in 1940, it incorporatedThe Townsville Evening Star.[15]
Modern era
editIn 1984, theTownsville Daily Bulletinwas acquired byNews Corp Australiaand renamed as theTownsville Bulletin.[15][4]
The newspaper chartered aBoeing 747to take North Queensland fans to the2005 NRL grand final,the Cowboys' first.[16]
It was awardedNews Limited's Regional Newspaper of the Year in 2009.[citation needed]
Along with nearly every other News Corp newspaper, the Bulletin endorsed the Liberal Party in its editorial on the2019 Australian federal election.[17]
Personnel
edit- John Gagliardi,editor, 1970s
- Geoff Hill,journalist, 1980s.
- Christopher Mitchell,journalist, 1970s.
- Alexander Vindex Vennard,writer under thepen namesof Bill Bowyang, Frank Reid, and Maurice Deane, 1920s to 1940s. Vennard also wrote forThe North Queensland Register.
Aerial photos and maps
edit"satellite view of Townsville Bulletin"(Map).Google Maps.Retrieved1 October2011.(requires Javascript)
Digitisation
editThe paper has been digitised as part of theAustralian Newspapers Digitisation Programof theNational Library of Australia.[18][19]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^"Townsville Bulletin | NewsSpace".Archived fromthe originalon 30 April 2013.Retrieved14 July2013.
- ^"Townsville Bulletin - Local and Regional News Townsville, Queensland, Australia".The North Queensland Newspaper Company Pty Ltd.Retrieved2 January2011.
- ^"The North Queensland Newspaper Company Pty. Limited: Private Company Information - BusinessWeek".Bloomberg L.P. Archived fromthe originalon 8 October 2012.Retrieved2 January2011.
- ^abBHP Billiton Our World History Series: Townsville Bulletin,2013.
- ^"Townsville Bulletin".Archived fromthe originalon 10 March 2007.
- ^abc"Early Townsville".Townsville Daily Bulletin.Queensland, Australia. 31 October 1945. p. 7.Retrieved22 June2020– via Trove.
- ^"State Library of Western Australia Online Catalogue/All Locations".Government of Western Australia, Department of Health, WA Health Libraries Network.Retrieved2 January2011.
- ^abcdefg"Townsville Newspaper Company".Townsville Daily Bulletin.Queensland, Australia. 4 February 1909. p. 2.Retrieved22 June2020– via Trove.
- ^"Dodd S. CLARKE".Townsville Daily Bulletin.Queensland, Australia. 25 July 1918. p. 4.Retrieved22 June2020– via Trove.
- ^"Death of D. S. CLARKE".The Northern Herald.Queensland, Australia. 25 July 1918. p. 6.Retrieved22 June2020– via Trove.
- ^"Archival Holdings Home. North Queensland Newspaper Company Archive".James Cook University Library.James Cook University.Retrieved22 June2020.
- ^"Historical Notes on North Queensland Newspapers".James Cook University Library.James Cook University. 19 October 2015.Retrieved22 June2020.
- ^"The Townsville Bulletin Fire".The Northern Miner.Queensland, Australia. 19 October 1912. p. 3.Retrieved22 June2020– via Trove.
- ^"Townsville Bulletin Fire".The Northern Miner.Queensland, Australia. 18 October 1912. p. 5.Retrieved22 June2020– via Trove.
- ^ab"Townsville Daily Bulletin".AusLit.12 November 2013.Retrieved22 June2020.
- ^Baynes, Dan (28 September 2005)."Tigers Face Cowboys as Australia Gets 500/1 NRL Final".bloomberg.com.Retrieved30 August2011.
- ^"With minor exceptions, the Murdoch press opposes Shorten".17 May 2019.
- ^"Newspaper and magazine titles".Trove.Retrieved24 July2015.
- ^"Newspaper Digitisation Program".Trove.Retrieved24 July2015.