| Type | Newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | APN News & Media |
| Founded | 1922 |
| Language | English |
| Circulation | 22,808 Monday-Friday 30,270 Saturday |
| Official website | thechronicle.com.au |
The Toowoomba Chronicle is a daily newspaper serving Toowoomba, the Lockyer Valley and Darling Downs regional areas in Queensland, Australia. The newspaper is owned by APN News & Media.
The circulation of The Toowoomba Chronicle is 22,808 Monday to Friday and 30,270 on Saturday.[1]
The Toowoomba Chronicle website is part of the APN Regional News Network.
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The Darling Downs Gazette, founded at Drayton by Sydney Arthur Lyon, began publication in a wooden shanty on 10 June 1858. It moved to the burgeoning town of Toowoomba and merged with The Chronicle in 1922. The Chronicle, founded by Darius Hunt, began as a four penny weekly on 4 July 1861 in a coachbuilder's shop in James Street. On 4 February 1876, William Groom became sole proprietor, beginning nearly half a century of family control of a newspaper that he transformed into a powerful and persuasive political weapon.
Archibald Meston was one of the editors.[2]
In 1922 the Dunn family acquired the Gazette and the two newspapers were amalgamated as the Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette. The combined newspaper was published first on 2 October 1922. On 20 October 1969 The Chronicle format was changed from broadsheet to tabloid. The Chronicle and the Downs Star merged on 1 October 1970 under a new company Toowoomba Newspapers Pty Ltd. The newspaper was relaunched as Toowoomba's Mail in September 2003.
In 1988, Australian Provincial Newspapers Ltd (APN) acquired a 50% share in Toowoomba Newspapers.[3]
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