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| Type | Newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid (prior to ceasing printed publication |
| Owner | News Corp Australia |
| Editor | Jessica Grewal[1] |
| Founded | 1860 |
| Language | English |
| Circulation | 9,550 Monday-Friday 11,095 Saturday (prior to ceasing printed publication) |
| Price | A$1.00 Monday-Friday A$1.20 Saturday |
| Website | frasercoastchronicle.com.au |
TheFraser Coast Chronicle is anonline newspaper serving theFraser Coast area inQueensland, Australia. It was started as theMaryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser.
Charles Hardie Buzacott first published theMaryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser inMaryborough as a four-page tabloid, in his slab hut in Lennox Street in November 1860. It sold for sixpence and was read fromGayndah in the west andChilders in the north toGympie in the south.
In 1863, Buzacott sold his interests toWilliam Swain Roberts and Joseph Robinson, who set out to "reflect the community's wants and opinions while boldly and distinctly enunciating our own views".[citation needed] As the rough river town turned into a respectable city, its newspaper became a bi-weekly in 1864, a tri-weekly in 1868 and a daily in 1882.
In 1867, Roberts became sole proprietor and managing editor. A Scot, Andrew Dunn from Toowoomba, joined theChronicle in 1885, beginning a long association with the Dunn family. Through war, flood and fire the presses rolled, although, as one edition reports, it was touch and go in the1893 Brisbane flood: "We must confess that at this hour (3 a.m.) as we are going to press the state of the flood and events just reported completely upset our anticipation of comparative safety."[citation needed]
Circulation growth brought the price down to twopence in 1901 and a penny in 1903.
From 25 April 1947, the title was simplified toMaryborough Chronicle.
After several shifts, Bazaar Street became theChronicle's new home in 1957. A satellite office operated in Hervey Bay. In 1966 the paper's format changed from broadsheet to tabloid and in 1977 it moved to offset printing.[2][failed verification][3][failed verification]
In 2005, theChronicle shifted its headquarters From Maryborough to a newHervey Bay office. In 2020, with the cessation of the print edition, this office was closed.
Along with many other regional Australian newspapers owned byNewsCorp, the newspaper ceased print editions in June 2020 and became an online-only publication.[4]
TheFraser Coast Chronicle website is part of the News Corp Australia's News Regional Media network.
TheMaryborough Chronicle has been digitised as part of theAustralian Newspapers Digitisation Program of theNational Library of Australia for the years 1860 to 1954.[5][6]
