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Tweed Daily News

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Tweed Daily News
TypeNewspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)News Corp Australia
EditorBrad Ricks
Founded1914
LanguageEnglish
Websitetweednews.com.au

TheTweed Daily Newswas a dailynewspaperserving theTweed Heads, New South Walesarea of Australia. The newspaper is now in website form only and is owned byNews Corp Australia.[1]

TheTweed Daily Newswas circulated to theTweed Shirecommunity stretching fromPalm Beach, Queensland,south toPottsville, New South Wales.

TheTweed Daily Newswebsite is part of News Corp Australia's News Regional Media network.

History

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TheTweed Daily Newsstarted life in 1888 as theTweed and Brunswick Advocateand theSouth Queensland Recordmade its appearance at the end of October 1888.

The paper was started by William Robert Baker who had worked on newspapers in the Grafton District. Mr Baker and his two apprentices Norman MacKinon and James McLeod set about producing the paper that was the forerunner to today'sTweed Daily News.

The paper started as a weekly paper, then a bi-weekly, and over the years changed names, owners and formats several times. However, on the first day of January in 1914, the bi-weekly papers were combined to introduce the district's first daily newspaper -The Tweed Daily.

After the early days of patiently setting every letter by hand,The Tweed Dailytook a major step forward in 1970 when it became the second daily newspaper in Australia to install anoffset printingpress. Nowadays publishing is done on a computer system and the company's papers are printed at sister sites inBallinaandYandina.[2]

See also

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References

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  1. ^Burrowes, Tim (29 December 2016)News Corp completes takeover of APN's regional newspapers,Mumbrella.Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  2. ^About us,Tweed Daily News.Accessed 20 March 2009.
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