The Evening News (Sydney)
{{Short description|Australian newspaper 1867 to 1931}}
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The Evening News was the first evening newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.{{cite web|last=Bryce|first=Merilyn|title=Bennett, Samuel (1815–1878)|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bennett-samuel-2975|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography|access-date=5 June 2013}} It was published from 29 July 1867 to 21 March 1931.{{cite web|title=The Evening News|url=http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1159558~S2|publisher=State Library of New South Wales|access-date=5 June 2013}} The Sunday edition was published as the Sunday News.
History
The Evening News was founded in 1867 by Samuel Bennett and was regarded as a "less serious read" than other Sydney newspapers.{{cite book|last=Isaacs|first=Victor|title=Two hundred years of Sydney newspapers : a short history|year=2003|publisher=Rural Press|location=North Richmond|page=10|url=http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:11092/sydnews.pdf}}
In 1875 labour difficulties forced Bennett to merge another of his papers, The Empire into The Evening News.
A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson was editor from 1903 to 1908, when he resigned.{{cite book|author=Clement Semmler |title=Australian Dictionary of Biography: 'Paterson, Andrew Barton (Banjo) (1864–1941)' |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/paterson-andrew-barton-banjo-7972/text13883 |year=1988 |access-date=8 June 2023}}
In November 1918 the firm of S. Bennett Ltd, capital £200,000, was established to acquire the assets of the late Samuel Bennett, including the Evening News, Town and Country Journal, and Woman's Budget. Directors include K. L. Bennett.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article239578268 |title=Financial |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) |issue=12323 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=8 November 1918 |accessdate=25 March 2024 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} The Evening News continued to be published until 1931 at which point it was closed by Associated Newspapers Ltd, who had acquired most Sydney newspaper titles by that time. A Sunday morning edition was published as Sunday News from 1919–1930.
The Evening News office was located at 47 Market Street, Sydney in a grand four storey Victorian building in the heart of Sydney. In 1926 the building was sold to Union Theatres Limited for the construction of the new State Theatre that was to become the majestic centrepiece for the new technology 'talkie' films that commenced screening in 1929, signalling an end to the silent movie period.
File:Evening News Building, 47 Market Street, Sydney, 1926.jpg
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
- {{trove newspaper|508|Evening News|Sydney, NSW: 1869–1931}}
- {{trove newspaper|623|Sunday News|Sydney, NSW: 1919}}
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Category:Defunct newspapers published in Sydney
Category:Newspapers established in 1867
Category:1867 establishments in Australia