The ''Manly Daily'' is an Australian community newspaper, covering the
Northern Beaches
The Northern Beaches is a region within Northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, near the Pacific coast. This area extends south to the entrance of Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour), west to Middle Harbour and north to the en ...
region of
Sydney.
The paper is one of
News Corp Australia's community newspapers in
New South Wales
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. It was delivered free to homes and businesses on Wednesdays and Saturdays until April 2020. It had previously been printed five days a week. From May 2020 it became digital only.
History
The paper was established on 28 July 1906 by Edward Lincoln with a two-page issue.
Only once in its history has the ''Manly Daily'' failed to appear: on 24 February 1966, when excessive humidity in the switchboard caused a breakdown in the electrical system. A double edition was published the following day.
The newspaper was last printed at
Manly on 4 August 1989 (the edition of 5 August). The paper was then printed at the
Parramatta
Parramatta () is a suburb and major Central business district, commercial centre in Greater Western Sydney, located in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately west of the Sydney central business district on the ban ...
plant of its parent company, Cumberland Newspapers, now NewsLocal, a News Ltd subsidiary until 1 October 2004. It was printed at Rural Press, North Richmond, until an upgrade of the News Limited-owned
Chullora Print Centre was completed in 2008. The paper is now printed at Chullora.
On 28 July 2006 the newspaper celebrated its 100th anniversary with a special edition that featured the founding of the newspaper along with events and stories that have made an impact on the peninsula, such as the
2000 Summer Olympics torch relay.
In December 2017 it was announced the newspaper would cease publishing five days a week and instead focus on Wednesday and Saturday editions from January 2018. More content would become online-only, with the use of a
paywall.
In April 2020,
Newscorp
News Corporation (abbreviated News Corp.), also variously known as News Corporation Limited, was an American multinational mass media corporation controlled by media mogul Rupert Murdoch and headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in N ...
announced the ''Manly Daily'' would suspend print publication as one of many newspapers affected by the
coronavirus pandemic in Australia.
Readership
The newspaper was distributed to about 90,000 homes and businesses with an estimated readership of about 156,000. It was distributed all over the Northern Beaches from the
Spit Bridge
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Common uses
* Spit (archaeology), a term for a unit of archaeological excavation
* Spit (landform), a section of land that extends into a body of water
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and
Seaforth to
Palm Beach and the
Hawkesbury River
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, as well as being available online.
See also
*
List of newspapers in Australia
References
External links
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{{News Corp Australia community newspapers
Newspapers published in Sydney
Publications established in 1906
News Corp Australia
1906 establishments in Australia
Manly, New South Wales