The Northern Star is a dailynewspaper servingLismore, New South Wales, Australia. Thenewspaper is owned byNews Corp Australia.
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 The front cover of theNorthern Star on 13 May 1876 | |
| Type | Newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | News Corp Australia |
| Editor | David Kirkpatrick |
| Founded | 1876 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Lismore, New South Wales,Australia Media Centre, Ballina Road GoonellabahNSW 2480 |
| Circulation | 14,737 Monday-Friday 22,653 Saturday |
| ISSN | 1036-6768 |
| Website | northernstar.com.au |
The Northern Star is circulated toLismore and surrounding communities, fromTweed Heads to the north, toKyogle andCasino to the west andEvans Head to the south and includes the seaside towns ofByron Bay andBallina.
The circulation ofThe Northern Star is 14,737 Monday to Friday and 22,653 on Saturday.[1]The Northern Star website is part of theAPN Regional News Network.
History
editThe two-page first issue ofThe Northern Star was brought out on 13 May 1876, on a tiny Albion hand press.
In 1955, building started on the media centre inGoonellabah, and in 1957 the move was made from the Molesworth Street office.
In 1981,The Northern Star commissioned a seven-unit Goss Urbanite Web Offset press capable of printing 20,000 56-page copies — 1.12 million pages — per hour.
The newspaper was owned by Northern Star Holdings, which in the 1980s became an associate ofFrank Lowy'sWestfield Capital Corporation until 1988 when Lowy decided to sell the company's northern New South Wales newspapers to instead focus on its newly purchased Ten Network television assets. The paper was purchased by Australian Provincial Newspapers (APN), nowARN Media.[2]
In 2004, the press was upgraded to twelve units with six Enkel auto reel stands, increasing the capability to 3.2 million pages an hour or 53,333 pages a minute. Colour capacity also increased from 16 to 48 pages of processed colour in one pass.[3]
Along with many other regional Australian newspapers owned byNewsCorp, the newspaper ceased print editions in June 2020 and became online-only publication.[4]
The "tiny Albion hand press" today holds pride of place in the foyer of the Goonellabah Media Centre.
Digitisation
editThe paper has been digitised as part of theAustralian Newspapers Digitisation Program[5][6] project of theNational Library of Australia.[7]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). Average Net Paid Sales for October–December 2008 (metro and larger regional titles)/January–June 2008 (other regional titles).
The Northern Star also publishes The Byron Shire News, The North Coast Advocate, The Richmond River Express Examiner, The River Town Times and The Farmer Bulletin.
In addition,The Northern Star runs a commercial printing business. - ^"APN makes steady progress".The Australian Financial Review. 20 October 1989.
- ^About us,The Northern Star. Accessed 21 March 2009.
- ^"Future is digital: News announces major changes".Gatton Star. 28 May 2020.Archived from the original on 22 December 2020. Retrieved22 December 2020.
- ^"Trove". National Library of Australia. Retrieved22 May 2013.
- ^"Newspaper Digitisation Program". National Library of Australia. Archived fromthe original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved22 May 2013.
- ^Brown, Jerelynn (2011). "Tabloids in the State Library of NSW collection: A reflection of life in Australia".Australian Journal of Communication.38 (2):107–121.