Gold Coast Bulletin

The newspaper has undergone a number of masthead and ownership changes.{{cite journal | last = Kirkpatrick | first = Rod | title = Bulletin struggled early but boomed with the Gold Coast | journal = Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association Bulletin | pages = 56–57 | date = May 2005 | url = http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv.php?pid=UQ:9465&dsID=rk_panpa_0505.pdf | access-date = 6 March 2014 }}{{cite book | last = McRobbie | first = Alexander | title = 20th Century Gold Coast People | publisher = The Gold Coast Arts Centre Press | year = 2000 | location = Surfers Paradise | pages = 216–217 |isbn=978-0-646-39239-4}}

When Patrick Joseph McNamara started the paper in 1885, he worked in a tin shed on Southport's Lawson Street. He named the paper The Southern Queensland Bulletin, and it was the first newspaper published in Southport. McNamara was succeeded by Mr Shepherd and Mr Mellor.{{cite book | last = Elliott | first = John | title = Southport - Surfers Paradise: An illustrated history to commemorate the Centenary of the Southport State School | publisher = Gold Coast Publications Pty Limited | year = 1980 | location = Molendinar | pages = 66–67 | isbn = 978-0-9594767-0-5}} In the 1890s, the broadsheet was renamed to The Logan and Albert Bulletin, and kept this name until 1928. It was during this period that the Rootes family became associated with the paper,{{how|date=May 2016}} a relationship that spanned generations{{Citation | title = Coast History Recorded | newspaper = The Hinterland Sun| pages = 2 | date = 8 November 2001}} and provided stability to the publication.

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In 1908 Mr Edward Fass purchased the newspaper and sold his interest in 1928. On 21 December 1928, under the editorship of Mr Michael James O'Donohue, the newspaper changed format to a tabloid and altered its masthead to The South Coast Bulletin.{{Citation | title = The South Coast Bulletin which incorporates the Logan and Albert Bulletin | newspaper = The South Coast Bulletin | pages = 1 | date = 4 October 1929}} The first issue with this title was published on 21 December 1928. In 1930 a new editor, Mr Norman Sydney Woodroffe, was appointed.{{cite book | last = Galton | first = Barry | title = The Gold Coast Bulletin: A history of a regional newspaper (1885-1985) | publisher = Gold Coast Publications Pty Limited | year = 1985 | location = Southport | pages = 45 | isbn = 978-0-9589409-0-0}}

During the 1930s The South Coast Bulletin was published weekly{{Citation | title = Man of bold type | newspaper = The Gold Coast Bulletin | pages = 8 | date = 8 April 1993}} on a Friday. It focused on local issues and was "strongly involved in promoting the South Coast as a holiday resort". It included information on pioneers of the region,{{Citation | title = The reproduction of a Bulletin front page from October, 1929, shows how that newspaper acknowledged the pioneers of the rapidly growing place that would become the Gold Coast | newspaper = The Gold Coast Bulletin | pages = 4 | date = 5 December 1984}} reported on items of interest to local residents and advocated for the improvement of the steadily growing region now known as the Gold Coast, Queensland.

The National Library of Australia has partially digitised previous editions as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program.{{cite web |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title672 |title=South Coast Bulletin (Southport, Qld. : 1929 - 1954) |website=Trove |access-date=2016-05-03}}

The South Coast Bulletin became the Gold Coast Bulletin in 1963. The final issue with The South Coast Bulletin masthead was published on 3 May 1963.

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• {{Official website|http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/}}
• [http://www.gcbulletin.com.au/docs/BulletinRateCardInclusive.pdf The Gold Coast Bulletin Media Guide]
• [http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/93489/Missing-newspapers-South-East-region2013.pdf State Library of Queensland missing newspapers, South East region]
• {{trove newspaper|1212|Southern Queensland Bulletin|Southport, Qld. : 1888 - 1891}}
• {{trove newspaper|843|Logan and Albert Bulletin|Southport, Qld. : 1896 - 1901; 1909; 1921; 1922; 1928}}
• {{trove newspaper|672|South Coast Bulletin|Southport, Qld. : 1929 - 1954}}

• {{cite book | author1=Kirkpatrick, Rod | title=Sworn to No Master: A history of the provincial press in Queensland to 1930 | publication-date=1984 | publisher=Darling Downs Institute Press | isbn=978-0-909306-60-1 }}
• {{cite book | author1=Kirkpatrick, Rod | author2=Queensland Country Press Association | title=Purposely Parochial: 100 years of the Country Press in Queensland | publication-date=2008 | publisher=Queensland Country Press Association | edition=1st | isbn=978-0-646-49194-3 }}

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