''The Daily Examiner'' is a daily
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serving
Grafton, New South Wales
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, Australia. The newspaper is owned by
News Corp Australia
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. At various times the newspaper was known as ''The Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser'' (1859–1889) and ''Clarence and Richmond Examiner'' (1889–1915).
''The Daily Examiner'' is circulated to Grafton, the
Clarence Valley and surrounding areas from
Woody Head in the north to
Red Rock in the south.
The circulation of ''The Daily Examiner'' is 5,571 Monday to Friday and 6,446 on Saturday.
A major redesign of ''The Daily Examiner'' was highly commended in the PANPA 2002 Newspaper of the Year Awards for dailies and Sundays up to 20,000.
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''The Daily Examiner''. Accessed 22 March 2009. ''The Daily Examiner'' was also awarded PANPA Newspaper of the Year 0 to 20,000 copies in 2009 for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific and 2010 APN Newspaper of the year
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History
''The Clarence and Richmond Examiner'' was ostensibly launched in 1859 by
William Edward Vincent. However, the power behind the throne was wealthy politician
Clark Irving
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Early life
Irving was the son of a Cumberland farmer. He ...
, an opponent of the separation of the Northern Rivers from the colony of New South Wales. In 1861 it was purchased by
Richard Stevenson for £600. In 1875 it was purchased by James Gray and James McNaughton.
Grafton generally had three or more newspapers from 1874 into the new century when the tri-weekly ''Clarence and Richmond Examiner'' was converted into a daily on 1 July 1915, "to keep public issues constantly before the minds of the people".
Grafton has had a succession of long-serving editors who won renown for their editorial leadership in community affairs, most notably Cecil Bush Bailey (1886–1944), William Bailey-Tart (1944–1960) and John Irvine Moorhead (1960–1977).
Grafton surgeon
Earle Page
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, later a caretaker
Prime Minister
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, was a major boardroom influence on ''The Examiner'' as it continued to champion the
New England
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New State proposal, a hydro-electric scheme on the
Nymboida River
The Nymboida River, a perennial stream of the Clarence River catchment, is located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
The Nymboida River rises in the northern foothills of the Barren Mountain, on t ...
, and a deep-sea port plan for
Iluka.
Editors who have had the stewardship of the paper in the era of modern technological advancement include Geoff Orchison, Robert Milne and Peter Ellem, who has campaigned for a second
Grafton bridge
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crossing, an ambulance station/health clinic in
Yamba, and improvements to the
Pacific Highway.
''The Examiner'' continued its groundbreaking role in 1981, by appointing Laureta Godbee as the first female editor of an Australian daily newspaper. The current editor is Bill North.
Along with many other regional Australian newspapers owned by
NewsCorp
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, the newspaper ceased print editions in June 2020 and became online-only publication.
Digitisation
The various versions of the paper have been digitised as part of the
Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program
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project hosted by the
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See also
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List of newspapers in Australia
This is a list of newspapers in Australia. For other older newspapers, see list of defunct newspapers of Australia.
National
In 1950, the number of national daily newspapers in Australia was 54 and it increased to 65 in 1965.
Daily newspape ...
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List of newspapers in New South Wales
This is a list of newspapers in New South Wales in Australia.
List of newspapers in New South Wales (A)
List of newspapers in New South Wales (B)
List of newspapers in New South Wales (C)
List of newspapers in New South Wales (D)
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References
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''Daily Examiner'' (Grafton, NSW : 1915–1954)at Trove
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