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Barossa & Light Herald
TypeWeekly newspaper
Owner(s)Australian Community Media
Founded1860
LanguageEnglish
CityTanunda, South Australia
Websitebarossaherald.com.au

The Herald (also styled as Barossa Herald, Barossa and Light Herald, or Barossa & Light Herald) is a weekly newspaper published in

Rural Press, previously owned by Fairfax Media, but now an Australian media company trading as Australian Community Media
.

History

The Barossa and Light Herald began publication on 10 May 1951 after Leslie Tilbrook (who had owned the Kapunda Herald since September 1923) sold the newspaper.[1] A new publication was then created by the merger of:

  1. Kapunda Herald (1860-1951): This publication began life as the Northern Star (1860-1863), the first English-language newspaper in regional South Australia.[2] It then transformed into the Kapunda Herald and Northern Intelligencer (1864-1877)[3] when it changed ownership. By 1878, and with another new owner, the title was simplified.[4]
  2. Barossa News (1908-1951): The first newspaper to provide any significant local news coverage to the Barossa towns, the Barossa News, was established by John Birdseye Cant, a Western Australian printer and newspaperman.[5] Initially just 500 copies were printed, but after a few years the circulation had risen to 2,500.

In 1981, the newspaper then absorbed the Eudunda Courier (9 February 1922 – 15 April 1981).[6] The newspaper was later taken over by the Rural Press in the 1990s and was a part of the Fairfax Media group.[5] In May 2005 the title was again shortened, this time to simply Herald, though the longer variants of the previous name (Barossa Herald, Barossa and Light Herald, or Barossa & Light Herald) are commonly used as well.

Distribution

In 2012, the Herald claimed the largest circulation for a country newspaper in South Australia at 21,400 copies distributed weekly.[5] By 2018, the average issue readership for the print version was calculated to be 29,000 [7] Like other Rural Press publications, the newspaper is also available online.[8]

Digitisation

The State Library of South Australia carries microfiche copies of older versions of the newspaper.[9]

References

  1. ^ "About Us | Barossa & Light Herald". www.barossaherald.com.au. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  2. ^ "SA Memory: Kapunda Herald". State Library of SA. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  3. ^ "Personalities". Quiz (Adelaide newspaper). Vol. XII, no. 603. South Australia. 21 March 1901. p. 6. Retrieved 6 July 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. F. W. Young
    M.P., W. D. Taylor, and C. B. O'Reilly.
  5. ^ a b c Laube, Anthony. "LibGuides: SA Newspapers: A-B". guides.slsa.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  6. ^ The Eudunda courier [newspaper: microform]: and Murray Flats advertiser. Eudunda [S. Aust.]: H.J. Weckert. 1922.
  7. ^ "Barossa and Light Herald - Fairfax Media ACM Ad Centre". Fairfax Media ACM Ad Centre. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  8. ^ "BAROSSA & LIGHT HERALD eEdition - Login". eedition.fairfaxregional.com.au. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  9. ^ The Barossa & Light herald [newspaper]. Tanunda [S. Aust.]: J. Liddy for the Barossa News Ltd. 1951.

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