The ''Geelong News'' is a free weekly paper delivered to houses in the

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region in Victoria, Australia. It is published on Wednesdays with a circulation of over 70,000 copies. The focus of most stories are local community issues and sport. Recently the newspaper started producing different content for different parts of Geelong.

History

The ''Geelong News'' was first published as the ''Belmont and Highton News'' on 21 July 1965. The first edition was delivered to 4000 local households. The publisher of the new newspaper was Dick Horniblow who was 27 years old at the time. He completed a Diploma of Agriculture, before working for three years at the ''

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'', ''The Sun'', and ''The Herald''. He then worked for the

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, worked with the ''

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'' in Sale, then was appointed editor of the ''

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''. The first issues were produced by Mr Horniblow and his wife Helen from their home in Hawthorn Avenue, Belmont. The newspaper moved to an office in High Street, Belmont in April 1966. At the same time circulation of the paper expanded to cover the adjoining suburb of

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. The name of the paper changed to the ''Geelong Suburban News'' in September 1968, when separate editions were launched for the suburbs of Newtown and

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. By 1970 the newspaper covered the entire Geelong area. 1973 saw Horniblow, his brother Bryan Horniblow, and business partner purchase the '' Ballarat News''. The Geelong News moved from High Street to Victoria House in Moorabool Street in 1975, by which time 25 permanent staff were employed by the group. West Web printers was added to the Geelong News group in 1976, and in 1980 the group was acquired by the ''

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'' group, which was then a

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References

*Peter Begg (1990). ''Geelong – The First 150 Years''. Globe Press. ISBN 0-9592863-5-7
About the Geelong News

External links

Official website
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