Daily Liberal
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{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Daily Liberal
| logo = Dubbo Daily Liberal masthead.jpg
| image = Daily Liberal on Talbragar Street in Dubbo.jpg
| caption = Daily Liberal office in Dubbo
| type = Weekly newspaper
| format = Tabloid
| foundation = 1875
| owners = Australian Community Media
| headquarters = Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia
| editor =
| website = [http://www.dailyliberal.com.au/ www.dailyliberal.com.au]
| political = }}
File:Dubbo Liberal & Macquarie Advcate 3 January 1894.jpg
The Daily Liberal is a weekly newspaper produced in the city of Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia. The news stories published relate particularly to the city of Dubbo and the surrounding district. The newspaper was first printed in 1875. The current price for the daily editions is A$2.00. It has previously been published as The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate and The Daily Liberal and Macquarie Advocate.
History
The paper was named The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate from 1892-1927, and was published by William White.{{cite web|title=The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title188|publisher=National Library of Australia|access-date=28 November 2012}} It sought to publish "The latest colonial and intercolonial telegrams, cablegrams, local and general news".{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page6935974 |title=The Local Newspaper, The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate|newspaper=The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate (NSW : 1892 - 1927) |location=NSW |date=3 January 1894 |access-date=29 November 2012 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} The newspaper was distributed every Wednesday and Saturday mornings from an office in Wingewarra Street, Dubbo to surrounding towns including Bourke, Bathurst, Gilgandra, Narromine, Orange, Walgett and Wellington.
From June 1964 it was published by Macquarie Publications as The Daily Liberal and Macquarie Advocate.{{cite web|title=Daily liberal and Macquarie advocate (microform).|url=http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b2565069~S2|work=Catalogue|publisher=State Library of New South Wales|access-date=29 November 2012}}
In February 2025, Australian Community Media reduced the printed edition from daily to weekly.[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-07/acm-newspapers-print-editions-saturdays/104908300 Australian Community Media flags future further reduction in print editions] ABC News 7 February 2025
Distribution
The Daily Liberal is distributed to the major western towns of Dubbo, Brewarrina, Narromine, Wellington, Gilgandra, Coonamble, Bourke, Cobar and Walgett most commonly as an insert to each town's respective local paper.
Ownership
In 1949, the newspaper was purchased by Leo Armati and his wife Pat, establishing Macquarie Publications group that grew into the largest independently-owned regional publishing group in Australia. Macquarie retained ownership until December 1995 when Rural Press acquired the Daily Liberal, the Weekend Liberal and the other 55 newspapers and magazines in the Macquarie Publications group.[http://www.ruralpress.com/corp/finance/report96/mac.asp Rural Press Limited Annual Report to Shareholders 1995-1996] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050702013815/http://www.ruralpress.com/corp/finance/report96/mac.asp |date=2 July 2005 }}, Review of Operations, Regional Acquisitions by Ian Law, General Manager Special Projects (accessed 1 January 2006) Rural Press merged into Fairfax Media in 2007, but was split out into Australian Community Media when Fairfax was acquired by Nine Entertainment in July 2018.{{Cite news|last=Marsh|first=Stuart|date=July 26, 2018|title=Nine and Fairfax agree terms to merge to become Australia's largest media company|work=9Finance|url=https://finance.nine.com.au/business-news/nine-and-fairfax-agree-terms-to-merge/c1c826d8-51b6-4999-b657-a2d4f8e6c501|access-date=May 2, 2021}}
Digitisation
This newspaper has been partially digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project hosted by the National Library of Australia.{{cite web|title=Newspaper Digitisation Program|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|publisher=National Library of Australia|access-date=5 June 2013|archive-date=2 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702090621/http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|url-status=dead}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.dailyliberal.com.au/ Daily Liberal website]
- {{Trove newspaper|188|The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate}}
{{Australian Community Media|state=collapsed}}
Category:Newspapers established in 1875
Category:Newspapers published in New South Wales