The ''Tweed Daily News'' was a daily
newspaper
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serving the
Tweed Heads, New South Wales
Tweed Heads is a coastal city at the mouth of the Tweed River in the Northern Rivers region of the state of New South Wales, Australia. Tweed Heads is the northernmost town in New South Wales, and is located in the Tweed Shire local government ...
area of Australia. The newspaper is now in website form only and is owned by
News Corp Australia
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The group's interests span newspaper and magazine publishing, Internet, market research, DVD and film distribution, and film and television prod ...
.
The ''Tweed Daily News'' was circulated to the
Tweed Shire
Tweed Shire is a local government area located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. It is adjacent to the border with Queensland, where that meets the Coral Sea. Administered from the town of Murwillumbah, Tweed Shire ...
community stretching from
Palm Beach, Queensland, south to
Pottsville, New South Wales.
The ''Tweed Daily News'' website is part of News Corp Australia's News Regional Media network.
History
The ''Tweed Daily News'' started life in 1888 as the ''Tweed and Brunswick Advocate'' and the ''South Queensland Record'' made 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's ''Tweed 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 Daily'' took a major step forward in 1970 when it became the second daily newspaper in Australia to install an
offset printing
Offset printing is a common printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithography, lithographic process, which ...
press. Nowadays publishing is done on a computer system and the company's papers are printed at sister sites in
Ballina and
Yandina.
About us
''Tweed Daily News''. Accessed 20 March 2009.
See also
* List of newspapers in Australia
This is a list of newspapers in Australia. ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is the most-read newspaper in Australia, with over eight million readers as of 2021.
Top 10 newspapers by circulation
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References
External links
''Tweed Daily News''
Newspapers published in New South Wales
Tweed Heads, New South Wales
Newspapers established in 1888
APN Australian Regional Media
Daily newspapers published in Australia
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