Quest Community Newspapers

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Quest Community Newspapers is a newspaper company in Stafford, Queensland, Australia that is owned and operated by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

It currently publishes weekly tabloid newspapers, and one bi-weekly, providing news coverage predominately for the greater Brisbane area. In total, there are 17 free suburban newspapers and one news magazine (City News) distributed to households and businesses throughout Brisbane.

Its head office is at the corner of Shand and Byth Streets, Stafford, Queensland.

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Collectively Quest Community Newspapers cover an area stretching from the edge of the Sunshine coast in the north to the borders of the Gold Coast in the south, providing coverage of key suburbs in Brisbane for more than 865,000 readers weekly.

The full list of titles are:

Albert and Logan News - the only bi-weekly newspaper in the group, it publishes every Wednesday and Friday
Caboolture Shire Herald
City News - the news magazine
City North News
City South News
Ipswich News
Logan West Leader
North-West News
Northern Times
Northside Chronicle
Pine River Press
Redcliffe & Bayside Herald
South-East Advertiser
Southern Star
South-West News
Springfield News - established in 2005, this is the newest masthead in the Quest stable
Westside News
Wynnum Herald

All Quest titles feature regular sections such as Motoring, Sport, Property and Entertainment as well as local news and issues. In 2003 the group undertook a major redesign of all the newspapers to improve the ease with which its newspapers can be read.

The Quest Newspaper Group was formed in July 1985 through an amalgamation of established weekly free-distribution newspapers across Brisbane.