The Scone Advocate

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Front page of The Scone Advocate on 22 December 2005
Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Tabloid

Owner	Rural Press
Editor	Sarah Quirk, Rhonda Turner
Founded	1887
Political allegiance	-
Headquarters	206 Kelly Street, Scone, NSW, Australia

Website: www.scone.yourguide.com.au

The Scone Advocate is an Australian local newspaper, serving the communities of Scone, Aberdeen and Murrurundi in the Upper Hunter Valley. It is owned by Rural Press, and goes on sale each Thursday for $1.30. The newspaper was founded in 1887, the same year Scone was declared an municipality.

The newspaper drew national attention for its coverage of a gruesome murder in Aberdeen in the late 1990's. It was brought to the attention of the ABC program Media Watch in 2000 (1), for its coverage of a gruesome murder in Aberdeen. The newspaper was criticized by the program, local readers and the victim's family for its graphic coverage, which the editor at the time, Rhonda Turner, defended the newspaper and its reporting of the incident.

Prior to this, the newspaper's articles had appeared as part of the game show Don't Forget Your Toothbrush.

Current ABC Upper Hunter radio presenter Mike Pritchard was a former editor of the newspaper.