''Fremantle Herald'' and similar names have been used for three different newspapers serving
Fremantle, Western Australia
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: ''The Herald'' (1867–1886), ''Fremantle Herald'' (1913–1919) and a current publication, founded in 1989.
Colonial ''Herald''
James Pearce
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founded the original ''Herald'' in February 1867, publishing weekly. It was pitched at a more
working-class audience than its counterparts in Perth at the time, and featured
verse,
short stories
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and
serials. Pearce was joined by two co-proprietors,
William Beresford and
James Elphinstone Roe, both of whom, like Pearce, were
ex-convicts. ''The Herald'' supported social reform and opposed the convict system. Beresford wrote a weekly column, "Chips by a Sandalwood Cutter", which used a fictional character to challenge the morality of the social elite.
In 2013, the Fremantle Local History Collection funded the digitisation of the entire extant collection of the ''Herald'' of 1867–1886. The digitisation was carried out by the
National Library of Australia
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, and the scanned archives made available via their
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search engine.
World War I
In 1913 a new workers' weekly was established, with
William Carpenter serving as editor. He lasted less than a year, and subsequently the newspaper became "less friendly" to the labour movement.
This newspaper lasted until 1919, and in May 1921 it was incorporated (along with the ''Fremantle Times'') into the ''Fremantle Advertiser''.
Modern ''Herald''
In 1989, local resident Andrew Smith launched a new ''Fremantle Herald'' from a weatherboard house, employing an editor and small team of journalists, production and advertising staff based in
East Fremantle
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Etymology
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, on the corner of King and George Streets. In 1992 the operation was moved to the corner of
Cliff
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and Croke Streets, Fremantle. It now also publishes three titles in other parts of the
Perth metropolitan area
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It generally includes the coastal strip from Two Rocks in t ...
: the ''Melville City Herald'', the ''Cockburn City Herald'', and the ''Perth Voice'', all of which are letterbox-distributed weeklies. A two-year trial of a paid-for version of the ''Fremantle Herald'' failed to gain support from readers and was abandoned in 2005.
Notes and references
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External links
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Modern newspaper:
* {{Official website, http://www.fremantleherald.com/
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Defunct newspapers published in Perth, Western Australia
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