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The Community Newspaper Group was a community newspaper business in
Perth Perth is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the Australian states and territories of Australia, state of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth most populous city in Aust ...
, Western Australia. Owned by Seven West Media, it published 23 community newspapers within the metropolitan region of Perth, from Yanchep and Two Rocks in the city's north to Mandurah in the south.


History

The Community Newspaper Group was established in 1985. In May 2019, Seven West Media bought out joint venture partner News Corp Australia giving it 100% ownership with its headquarters moving from Northbridge to Osborne Park. In August 2021 Seven West Media ceased publishing most of its Community Newspaper Group-branded newspapers and replaces them with 10 localised editions under the
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brand.


Publications

The Community Newspaper Group's papers included:


City and western suburbs

* ''Eastern Reporter'' * ''Guardian Express'' * ''Stirling Times'' * ''Western Suburbs Weekly''


Hills and eastern suburbs

* ''Avon Valley Gazette'' * ''Comment News'' * ''Hills Gazette'' * ''Kalamunda Reporter'' * ''Midland Reporter'' * ''The Advocate''


Northern suburbs

* ''Joondalup Times'' *'' North Coast Times'' * ''Wanneroo Times'' * ''Weekender''


Southern suburbs

* ''Canning Times'' * ''Cockburn Gazette'' * ''Fremantle Gazette'' * ''Melville Times'' * ''Southern Gazette''


South coastal suburbs

* ''Kwinana Courier'' * ''Pinjarra Murray Times'' * ''Weekend Courier'' The ''Mandurah Coastal Times'' and the ''Sound Telegraph'', covering Rockingham and the
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region respectively, continue to be published under those names without the PerthNow branding.


Digital editions

In 2018 the Community Newspaper Group closed a number of newspapers and shifted their publication online. These digital mastheads were made available on communitynews.com.au and included: * ''Comment News'' * ''Guardian Express'' * ''Ellenbrook/Swan Valley Advocate'' * ''Hills/Avon Valley Gazette'' * ''Midland/Kalamunda Reporter'' * ''North Coast Times'' * ''Weekend/Kwinana Courier'' In April 2020 Community Newspaper Group transferred all its newspaper websites to the PerthNow website.


References


Further reading

* (2001) ''Community Newspapers ride high on PANPA success''. (Executives at Community Newspaper Group give reasons for the company's success, after one of its free newspapers, Weekend Courier Community was voted the best free non-daily newspaper for the Australian and Pacific Region). Campaign brief (1999), Oct. 2001, p. 20-21


External links


http://www.communitynews.com.au
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