Port Stephens Examiner
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| headquarters = William Street
Raymond Terrace
New South Wales 2324
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File:Glouscester Examiner and Lower Hunter Advertiser 2 February 1912.png
The Port Stephens Examiner is a weekly newspaper published in Raymond Terrace, New South Wales, Australia since 1893. The Port Stephens Examiner has also been published as the Gloucester Examiner and Lower Hunter Advertiser and the Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser.
History
The Gloucester Examiner and Lower Hunter Advertiser was first published on 24 November 1893 by William Brown.{{cite book|last=Kirkpatrick|first=Rod|title=Country conscience : a history of the New South Wales provincial press 1841-1995|year=2000|publisher=Infinite Harvest Publishing|location=Canberra|page=235}} Brown had earlier worked on the Gloucester Gazette and Lower Hunter and Williams River Advocate which had ceased publication earlier in 1893. Brown changed the name of the paper to Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser in 1905. In 1981 the name was changed to the Port Stephens Examiner and it continues to be published under this name by Australian Community Media.{{cite book|last=Kirkpatrick|first=Rod|title=Country conscience : a history of the New South Wales provincial press 1841-1995|year=2000|publisher=Infinite Harvest Publishing|location=Canberra|page=293}}{{cite book|title=Port Stephens Examiner Media Kit|year=2013|publisher=Fairfax Regional Media|page=2|url=https://cdn.fairfaxregional.com.au/support-docs/pse2013mediakitLOW.pdf}}
Digitisation
The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia.{{cite web|title=Newspaper and magazine titles|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/about|work=Trove |publisher=National Library of Australia|access-date=5 June 2013}}{{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}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website}}
- {{Trove newspaper|654|Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser|NSW : 1912 - 1954)}}
{{Hunter Region places and items of interest}}
Category:Mass media in the Hunter Region
Category:Newspapers published in New South Wales