Geelong Advertiser
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| The Geelong Advertiser | |
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 Front page of The Geelong Advertiser |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Tabloid |
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| Owner | News Corp |
| Founded | 1857 |
| Headquarters | 191 - 195 Ryrie St, Geelong, Victoria, Australia |
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| Website: http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au | |
The Geelong Advertiser is a newspaper in Geelong, Victoria (Australia). The newspaper is currently owned by News Corporation.
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[edit] History
The Geelong Advertiser is the second oldest continuously run newspaper in Victoria and was first published on 21 November 1840.
It was founded by James Harrison, a Scots emigrant, who had arrived in Sydney in 1837 to set up a printing press for the English company Tegg & Co. Moving to Melbourne in 1839 he found employment with John Pascoe Fawkner as a compositor and later editor on Fawkner's Port Phillip Patriot. When Fawkner acquired a new press Harrison offered him 30 pounds for the original old press to start Geelong's first newspaper. The first weekly edition of the Geelong Advertiser appeared onat 3pm Saturday 21 November 1840: edited by 'James Harrison and printed and published for John Pascoe Fawkner (sole proprietor) by William Watkins...'.
Its first editorial offered these words:
Bring forth the press!
When first that mighty shout was heard.
Truth rose in radiant light ensphered.
The Nations to address.
Within ten years the Geelong Advertiser was being published daily and had moved offices twice in that time. It did not remain without competition however, and during the last 160 years more than seven newspapers have come and gone in Geelong. With the demise of other competitors the paper is now the second oldest in Victoria.
The original Fawkner press used by both the Melbourne Morning Herald and the Geelong Advertiser was offered for auction but after no bids were received it was donated to the Museum of Victoria at Scienceworks where it remains part of the collection but is displayed only occasionally to protect it from long term damage by such factors as UV light.
By November 1842 Harrison became sole owner. For the first seven years the paper was printed in demi-folio size before changing to broadsheet.
In 1858 the newspaper ditches original wooden press and adopts new typoraphy and is printed by mechanised steam printing.
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[edit] Further reading
- Don Hauser, The Printers of the Streets and Lanes Of Melbourne (1837 - 1975) Nondescript Press, Melbourne 2006
