Fremantle Herald
Type | newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Andrew Smith |
Founded | 1989 |
Headquarters | corner of Cliff and Croke Streets, Fremantle |
Sister newspapers | Melville City Herald, Cockburn City Herald and the Perth Voice |
Website | www |
Fremantle Herald and similar names have been used for three different newspapers serving
Colonial Herald
James Pearce founded the original Herald in February 1867, publishing weekly.[1] It was pitched at a more working-class audience than its counterparts in Perth at the time, and featured verse, short stories and serials. Pearce was joined by two co-proprietors, William Beresford and James Elphinstone Roe, both of whom, like Pearce, were ex-convicts. The Herald supported social reform and opposed the convict system. Beresford wrote a weekly column, "Chips by a Sandalwood Cutter", which used a fictional character to challenge the morality of the social elite.
In 2013,[2] the Fremantle Local History Collection funded the digitisation of the entire extant collection of the Herald of 1867–1886.[3] The digitisation was carried out by the National Library of Australia, and the scanned archives made available via their Trove search engine.
World War I
In 1913 a new workers' weekly was established, with William Carpenter serving as editor. He lasted less than a year, and subsequently the newspaper became "less friendly"[4] to the labour movement.
This newspaper lasted until 1919,[citation needed] and in May 1921 it was incorporated (along with the Fremantle Times) into the Fremantle Advertiser.[5]
Modern Herald
In 1989, local resident Andrew Smith launched a new Fremantle Herald from a weatherboard house, employing an editor and small team of journalists, production and advertising staff based in
Notes and references
- ^ "The Herald". The Herald. Fremantle, Western Australia: National Library of Australia. 2 February 1867. p. 1. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
- ^ RSS feed of recently updated articles, National Library of Australia
- ^ Fremantle City Library (10 May 2013). "Early archives of The Herald (Fremantle, WA : 1867 – 1886) now online".
- ^ "Port Potpourri". Westralian Worker (Perth, WA : 1900 - 1951). Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 14 November 1913. p. 4. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
- ^ "The Advertiser". The Advertiser. Western Australia. 13 May 1921. p. 1. Retrieved 20 January 2020 – via Trove.
- Wilde, W. H.; Hooton, Joy; Andrews, Barry (1994) [1985]. The Oxford companion to Australian Literature (2nd ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press. p. 302. ISBN 0-19-553381-X.
External links
Historical publications:
- The Herald (Fremantle, WA : 1867 - 1886) at Trove
- Works related to Fremantle Herald, 14 January 1871 at Wikisource
Modern newspaper:
- Official website
- Herald Newspapers at Perth Suburban Newspapers