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| Type | Communitynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | News Corp Australia |
| Editor | Edward Lincoln |
| Founded | 28 July 1906 |
| Language | English |
| Website | Official website |
TheManly Daily is an Australian community newspaper, covering theNorthern Beaches region ofSydney.
The paper is one ofNews Corp Australia's community newspapers inNew South Wales. It was delivered free to homes and businesses on Wednesdays and Saturdays until April 2020. It had previously been printed five days a week. From May 2020 it became digital only.[1]
The paper was established on 28 July 1906 by Edward Lincoln with a two-page issue.
Only once in its history has theManly Daily failed to appear: on 24 February 1966, when excessive humidity in the switchboard caused a breakdown in the electrical system. A double edition was published the following day.[2]
The newspaper was last printed atManly on 4 August 1989 (the edition of 5 August). The paper was then printed at theParramatta plant of its parent company, Cumberland Newspapers, now NewsLocal, a News Ltd subsidiary until 1 October 2004. It was printed at Rural Press, North Richmond, until an upgrade of the News Limited-ownedChullora Print Centre was completed in 2008.[3]
On 28 July 2006, the newspaper celebrated its 100th anniversary with a special edition that featured the founding of the newspaper along with events and stories that have made an impact on the peninsula, such as the2000 Summer Olympics torch relay.
In December 2017, it was announced the newspaper would cease publishing five days a week and instead focus on Wednesday and Saturday editions from January 2018. More content would become online-only, with the use of apaywall.[4]
In April 2020,Newscorp announced theManly Daily would suspend print publication as one of many newspapers affected by thecoronavirus pandemic in Australia.[5]
The newspaper was distributed to about 90,000 homes and businesses with an estimated readership of about 156,000. It was distributed all over the Northern Beaches from theSpit Bridge andSeaforth toPalm Beach and theHawkesbury River, as well as being available online.