''Eastern Courier Messenger'' is a weekly suburban newspaper in

Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...

, part of the

Messenger Newspapers Messenger Newspapers is the publisher of 9 free suburban weekly newspapers together covering the Adelaide metropolitan area. Established by Roger Baynes in Port Adelaide in 1951, ''Messenger'' has since acquired other independent suburban titles ...

group. The ''Eastern Courier's'' area is bounded by South Road to the west, Magill Road to the north, the foothills, and the city. The newspaper generally reports on events of interest in its distribution area, including the suburbs of Norwood, Burnside,

Wayville Wayville is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Unley. It is most notable for hosting of the Royal Adelaide Show at the Royal Adelaide Showgrounds, Adelaide Showgrounds. The suburb is bordered to the north by Adelaide's South Par ...

and

Unley Unley is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, within the City of Unley. The suburb is the home of the Sturt Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Unley neighbours Adelaide Park Lands, Fullar ...

. It also covers the

City of Unley The City of Unley is a local government area in the Adelaide metropolitan region. It is located directly south of the Adelaide city centre. The Corporate Town of Unley was created in 1871, when 2,000 signatories to a petition from residents of ...

City of Mitcham The City of Mitcham is a local government area in the foothills of southern Adelaide, South Australia. Within its bounds is Flinders University, South Australia's third largest, and the notable, affluent suburb of Springfield which contains so ...

City of Burnside The City of Burnside is a local government area in the South Australian city of Adelaide stretching from the Adelaide Parklands into the Adelaide foothills with an area of . It was founded in August 1856 as the District Council of Burnside, the ...

and

City of Norwood Payneham St Peters The City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters is a metropolitan local government area of South Australia. It covers the inner eastern suburbs of Adelaide. It is divided into five wards: Torrens, Payneham, West Norwood/Kent Town, Kensington (each ele ...

councils. It has a circulation of 62,600 and a readership of 81,000.

History

In 1949, ''The Courier'' newspaper was established in the Unley/Mitcham area. Meantime, the ''Eastside News Review'' was formed in 1961 with two editions, Burnside and Campbelltown. In 1965, the two ''Eastside News Review'' papers were merged to form the ''Burnside and Norwood News Review''. In 1984, ''The Courier'' was renamed the ''Courier Messenger'' and the ''Burnside and Norwood News Review'' was renamed the ''Burnside Messenger''. The ''Burnside Messenger's'' named was changed after one year to the ''Eastern Suburbs Messenger''. In 1993, the ''Eastern Suburbs Messenger'' and the ''Courier Messenger'' were merged to form the ''Eastern Courier Messenger''.

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External links

Messenger Newspapers

Eastern Courier Messenger
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