The ''Northern Territory News'' (also known and branded as the ''NT News'') is a morning tabloid

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based in

Darwin, Northern Territory Darwin ( ; Larrakia: ) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. With an estimated population of 147,255 as of 2019, the city contains the majority of the residents of the sparsely populated Northern Territory. It is the smalle ...

, Australia. Owned by

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, it is published every week from Monday to Saturday. It primarily serves Darwin and the rest of the Northern Territory and it covers local, national, and world news as well as sports and business. The paper currently has a Monday to Friday readership average of 44,000, reaching an average of 32,000 on Saturdays. News Corp Australia also publishes its local Sunday counterpart, ''The Sunday Territorian'', which is also available throughout Darwin and the Northern Territory, its online regional NT newspaper, the ''

Centralian Advocate The ''Centralian Advocate'' is an Australian regional online newspaper based at Alice Springs, Northern Territory. The ''Centralian Advocate'' is part of News Corp Australia, and serves under the ''Northern Territory News'' banner, containing hea ...

'', as well as free weekly community newspapers (since December 2008) under the banner of ''Sun Newspapers'' (delivered in Darwin, Palmerston, and Litchfield). The paper has become well known around Australia for its front-page headlines, with then-Deputy Editor Paul Dyer winning a

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for his contributions in 2012.

History

Prior to the formation of the ''Northern Territory News'', the Federal Government was concerned about the perceived 'pro-communist' bias from ''

The Northern Standard The ''Northern Standard'', also known by the uniform title ''Northern standard (Darwin, N.T.)'', was a newspaper published in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, from 1920 or 1921 to 1955. The paper was published by the North Australian Wor ...

'', a newspaper which was owned by the

North Australian Workers' Union The North Australian Workers' Union (NAWU) was a trade union in the Northern Territory between 1927 and 1972. It was a publisher of a newsletter in Darwin, the ''Northern Standard''. The union was involved in Aboriginal Australians' working con ...

. In 1949, they approached a Canberra-based journalist,

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, to establish a rival newspaper, to act as a counterbalance from the bias perceived by the Federal Government from ''The Northern Standard''. Whitington formed ''Northern Territory News Services Pty Ltd'', aided by Eric White and local printer John Coleman. The first edition of the ''Northern Territory News'' was published on 8 February 1952 as a weekly newspaper, later being published on a bi-weekly basis. Its office and print room were originally located from the former site of the

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in Smith Street, nicknamed the 'Tin Bank'. Originally, the paper was quite politically active being a noted advocate of greater self-governance powers for the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aus ...

as well as being vocal on a number of other local issues. However, the paper gradually lapsed into the current apolitical stance it maintains presently with its most noted feature being its unique headlines and front pages. In 1960,

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bought the ''Northern Territory News'', and it became a weekday newspaper in 1964. The Saturday edition was introduced in 1966, increasing its publishing schedule to six days a week, reverting to five days a week in 1975, before restarting its Saturday edition in 1979. In 1967, its office moved to Mitchell Street, opposite

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. On 25 December 1974, the building was destroyed, along with much of Darwin and its surrounds, by

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. Although the NT News was still able to print emergency editions during the crisis. Its Sunday counterpart, the ''Sunday Territorian'', was introduced on 7 October 1984. In 1985, the ''NT News'' relocated to its present location in Printers Place in Darwin City. In September 2010 the newspaper took delivery of the four-colour KBA Comet printing press which allows it to produce 64 pages in full colour. The Comet replaced the Uniman 2/2 machine on the floor, which increased its capacity to allow the plant to produce each Sunday to Friday edition in a single run, and to produce the Saturday edition in three runs instead of five runs. On 30 July 2019, the ''Northern Territory News'' will be resized from its original 405 millimetre high size, down to 350 millimetres from 12 August, with print editions of the ''Sunday Territorian'' and the ''Centralian Advocate'' following suit, being the first Australian newspaper to implement this format. The size is similar to the dimensions used by other international

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tabloids, most notably the ''

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''. On 29 June 2020, the ''Centralian Advocate'' moved to a digital-only format, along with numerous other News Corp-owned regional newspapers across Australia.

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