Albany Advertiser

Albany Advertiser

Front cover of the first issue of the Albany Advertiser

Front cover of the first issue of the Albany Advertiser
Type Bi-weekly
Owner(s) Seven West Media
Founder(s) Lancel Victor De Hamel, William Forster
Founded 1888
Country Australia
City Perth
Newspaper House, Albany Advertiser, York Street Albany

The Albany Advertiser, also published as the Australian Advertiser and the Albany Advertiser and Plantagenet and Denmark Post, is a biweekly English language newspaper published for Albany and the Great Southern region in Western Australia.

First published in 1888 as the Australian Advertiser, the paper is still in circulation.[1] The paper is the oldest continuous-running non-metropolitan newspaper in Western Australia.[2]

The paper is printed twice weekly, on Tuesday and Thursday, and distributed to towns through the Great Southern region including Albany, Cranbrook, Mount Barker, Jerramungup, Ravensthorpe, Katanning and Walpole.[1]

History

Australian Advertiser co-founder, Lancel Victor De Hamel, arrived in Albany in 1886 and announced his intention to run for mayor. De Hamel was given little support from the only paper in town, the conservative Albany Mail and King George's Sound Advertiser. He then set up a second publication with his partner, William Forster,[3] called the Australian Advertiser which first published on 14 May 1888. Shortly afterward De Hamel was elected as mayor.[4] The Albany Mail was absorbed by the Australian Advertiser September1889.

Forster took over the paper after De Hamel's departure in 1891. He remained the editor of the paper until 1900, when he left to work on the Morning Herald in Perth.[5] After his departure Arthur Catling too over as editor, and the paper moved to a bi-weekly format.[6]

In February 1897 the Australian Advertiser became the Albany Advertiser.[2] From 9 January 1924 until 24 December 1927, it was known as the Albany Advertiser and Plantagenet and Denmark Post.[7]

The Robert Holmes à Court company, Bell Brothers, acquired the paper in 1973 along with local radio station 6VA.[8]

The paper was taken over by The West Australian at some time prior to 2002; the Advertiser had a circulation of 9,000 per issue in 2003. Last printed in Albany in 2003, the paper was then printed in the suburbs of Perth, firstly in Victoria Park and since 2006 in Herdsman.[9]

The paper is currently owned by Seven West Media along with other Western Australian publications including The West Australian.[10]

Circulation in 2013 was 5,576 per issue.[9]

Availability

Issues (1897 - 1950) of this newspaper have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program[11] (ANDP), a project of the National Library of Australia in cooperation with the State Library of Western Australia.

Hard copy and microfilm copies of the Albany Advertiser are also available at the State Library of Western Australia.[7]

See Also

References

  1. 1 2 "West Australian Regional Newspapers - Albany Advertiser". The West Australian. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  2. 1 2 Josh Nyman (19 June 2013). "Celebrating 125 years - Albany Advertiser has a rich history". Yahoo 7. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "Access to Early WA Regional Newspapers: Pre-Federation to 1905" (PDF). State Library of Western Australia. 2003. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Donald Garden (1981). "de Hamel, Lancel Victor (1849–1894)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  5. ↑ Wendy Birman (2005). "Forster, William Frear (1857–1932)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  6. ↑ Battye, James Sykes (1985). The Cyclopedia of Western Australia. Carlisle: Hesperian Press. pp. 590–591. ISBN 0859050726.
  7. 1 2 "Catalogue". State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  8. ↑ Daniel Hatch (26 January 2015). "Albany paper looks to broadcast". Yahoo7. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  9. 1 2 "Australian Newspaper History Group Newsletter - Issue 73" (PDF). July 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  10. ↑ Liz Newell (4 July 2012). "Newspaper chief has confidence in future". Yahoo7. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  11. ↑ "Newspaper Digitisation Program". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2013.

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