The Community Newspaper Group was a community newspaper business in
Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...
, Western Australia. Owned by
Seven West Media
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Seven Group Holdings Ltd (SGH), a company control ...
, it published 23
community newspapers within the metropolitan region of Perth, from
Yanchep
Yanchep is an outer coastal suburb of Perth, Western Australia, north of the Perth CBD. It is a part of the City of Wanneroo local government area. Originally a small crayfishing settlement, it was developed by entrepreneur Alan Bond in the 1 ...
and
Two Rocks
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in the city's north to
Mandurah
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in the south.
History
The Community Newspaper Group was established in 1985. In May 2019,
Seven West Media
Seven West Media Limited is an ASX-listed media company and is Australia's largest diversified media business, with an extensive presence in broadcast television, print and online publishing.
Seven Group Holdings Ltd (SGH), a company control ...
bought out joint venture partner
News Corp Australia
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giving it 100% ownership with its headquarters moving from
Northbridge to
Osborne Park.
In August 2021 Seven West Media ceased publishing most of its Community Newspaper Group-branded newspapers and replaces them with 10 localised editions under the
PerthNow
''The Sunday Times'' is a tabloid Sunday newspaper published by Western Press Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Seven West Media, in Perth and distributed throughout Western Australia. Founded as The West Australian Sunday Times, it was renamed The Su ...
brand.
Publications
The Community Newspaper Group's papers included:
City and western suburbs
* ''Eastern Reporter''
* ''Guardian Express''
* ''Stirling Times''
* ''Western Suburbs Weekly''
Hills and eastern suburbs
* ''Avon Valley Gazette''
* ''Comment News''
* ''Hills Gazette''
* ''Kalamunda Reporter''
* ''Midland Reporter''
* ''The Advocate''
Northern suburbs
* ''Joondalup Times''
*'' North Coast Times''
* ''Wanneroo Times''
* ''Weekender''
Southern suburbs
* ''Canning Times''
* ''Cockburn Gazette''
* ''Fremantle Gazette''
* ''Melville Times''
* ''Southern Gazette''
South coastal suburbs
* ''Kwinana Courier''
* ''Pinjarra Murray Times''
* ''Weekend Courier''
The ''Mandurah Coastal Times'' and the ''Sound Telegraph'', covering
Rockingham and the
Peel region respectively, continue to be published under those names without the PerthNow branding.
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Digital editions
In 2018 the Community Newspaper Group closed a number of newspapers and shifted their publication online. These digital mastheads were made available on communitynews.com.au and included:
* ''Comment News''
* ''Guardian Express''
* ''Ellenbrook/Swan Valley Advocate''
* ''Hills/Avon Valley Gazette''
* ''Midland/Kalamunda Reporter''
* ''North Coast Times''
* ''Weekend/Kwinana Courier''
In April 2020 Community Newspaper Group transferred all its newspaper websites to the PerthNow website.[
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References
Further reading
* (2001) ''Community Newspapers ride high on PANPA success''. (Executives at Community Newspaper Group give reasons for the company's success, after one of its free newspapers, Weekend Courier Community was voted the best free non-daily newspaper for the Australian and Pacific Region). Campaign brief (1999), Oct. 2001, p. 20-21
External links
http://www.communitynews.com.au
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Companies based in Perth, Western Australia
Newspaper companies of Australia
Publishing companies established in 1985
Publishing companies disestablished in 2021
1985 establishments in Australia
2021 disestablishments in Australia