The ''Bendigo Weekly'' is a tabloid-size, full-colour newspaper published weekly throughout

Bendigo Bendigo ( ) is a city in Victoria, Australia, located in the Bendigo Valley near the geographical centre of the state and approximately north-west of Melbourne, the state capital. As of 2019, Bendigo had an urban population of 100,991, makin ...

, and country districts in central Victoria, including Woodend, Echuca, Wedderburn and Colbinabbin. The paper has won many awards, including a

Walkley Award The annual Walkley Awards are presented in Australia to recognise and reward excellence in journalism. They cover all media including print, television, documentary, radio, photographic and online media. The Gold Walkley is the highest prize and ...

by journalist Anthony Radford for Suburban and Regional Affairs. Radford also was the recipient of a

Quill Award The Quill Award was an American literary award that ran for three years in 2005-2007. It was a "consumer-driven award created to inspire reading while promoting literacy." The Quills Foundation, the organization behind the Quill Award, was support ...

for Best Regional or Rural Affairs Report in 2007. Victorian Country Press Awards for a paper with circulation greater than 10,000 include: Journalism 2006, 2007 and 2008; Local Reporting 2006, 2007 and 2008; Best Use of Colour 2007; Best Photographic Study 2008; Best News Photograph 2008; and Overall Newspaper Excellence 2008. The awards won in 2006 relate specifically to the paper's coverage of the water crisis confronting Bendigo.
/ref> At the time, a decade of drought had depleted the city's reservoirs to the point where supplies were likely to run out by year's end. In 2009 the paper commenced a campaign to promote the building of a new Bendigo hospital. In September 2019, it was announced the paper would cease publication as a separate entity and absorbed by the Bendigo Advertiser which aims to boost poor circulation figures of the latter masthead.

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External links

Official website
Bendigo Newspapers published in Victoria (Australia) Mass_media_in_Bendigo Weekly newspapers published in Australia