Yea Chronicle

The Yea Chronicle is a weekly newspaper that circulates Wednesdays throughout the western region of the Murrindindi Shire in Victoria, Australia.

The newspaper started as The Yea Telegraph in October 1885. The name changed to The Yea Chronicle in 1890. An early owner was Frederick G. Purcell.^[1] It was later owned by Tom Dignam and who sold the paper to Ash and Fleur Long in 1984 and they in turn sold it to Geoff Heyes and Jenny Smith of Alexandra newspapers in May 1993.^[2] It currently has a circulation of 1050.

See also

• List of Australian newspapers

References

1. ↑ 'The bold type: a history of Victoira's country newspapers, 1840-2010' by Rod Kirpatrick, published in Ascot Vale for the Victorian country press association in 2010 page 92
2. ↑ Margarets Gee's Australian media guide 97th edition July 2011, published in Melbourne by Crown Content in 2011pp 93

External links

• Digitised Yea Chronicle from the National Library of Australia
• Digitised World War I Victorian newspapers from the State Library of Victoria