The Border Mail

The Border Mail
Circulation	Mon-Fri: 7,440; Sat: 14,700
Website	bordermail.com.au

The Border Mail is a daily newspaper and online news brand published in

Albury-Wodonga

, Australia, serving the twin cities and the surrounding region. It was originally published as The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times and later as the Border Morning Mail before changing its title to The Border Mail.

History

The first edition was printed on 24 October 1903 under the title Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times by editor Hamilton Mott and his brother Decimus, and continued publishing under that title until 19 May 1920.

Hume Freeway

bypass of Albury. The newspaper's editor is Julie Coe. Former editors were Hamilton Mott, Clifton Mott, Rex Mitchell, ex-West Australian Newspapers editor-in-chief Bob Cronin, James Thomson, John McCluskey, Graham Storer, Cameron Thompson, Simon Dulhunty, Newcastle Herald editor Heath Harrison, Di Thomas, Niall Boyle and Xavier Mardling.

Acquisition

On 4 May 2006, the Mott family announced that they would accept a $162 million deal from John Fairfax Holdings to purchase the newspaper and its stake in the associated printing company. The deal ended over a century of family ownership.

Publication history

Publication name	Commenced publication	Ceased publication
Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times	1903	1920
Border Morning Mail	1920	1988
Border Mail	1988	-

Digitisation

Parts of the paper has been digitised as part of the

Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia.^[6]^[7]

References

^ "ABC – Average Net Paid Print Sales – Mon-Fri". AMAA.
^ "ABC – Average Net Paid Print Sales – Sat". AMAA.
^ "Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times". catalogue. State Library of NSW. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
^ "Border Morning Mail". catalogue. State Library of NSW. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
^ "Border Mail". catalogue. State Library of NSW. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
^ "Newspaper and magazine titles". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
^ "Newspaper Digitisation Program". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2013.

External links

Border Mail site – carries a small amount of the paper's news and has a comprehensive history of the paper.
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times (Albury, NSW : 1903 – 1920) at Trove

[1] "ABC – Average Net Paid Print Sales – Mon-Fri". AMAA.

[2] "ABC – Average Net Paid Print Sales – Sat". AMAA.

[3] "Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times". catalogue. State Library of NSW. Retrieved 25 October 2013.

[4] "Border Morning Mail". catalogue. State Library of NSW. Retrieved 25 October 2013.

[5] "Border Mail". catalogue. State Library of NSW. Retrieved 25 October 2013.

[6] "Newspaper and magazine titles". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2013.

[7] "Newspaper Digitisation Program". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2013.

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