The Toowoomba Chronicle

The Toowoomba Chronicle is a daily newspaper serving Toowoomba, the Lockyer Valley and Darling Downs regional areas in Queensland, Australia.

The Toowoomba Chronicle
TypeNewspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)News Corp Australia
EditorSteve Etwell
News editorWill Hunter
Founded1922
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersToowoomba, Queensland, Australia
618 Ruthven Street
Toowoomba QLD 4350
Circulation22,808 Monday-Friday
30,270 Saturday
Websitethechronicle.com.au

The newspaper is owned by News Corp Australia.[1]

The circulation of The Toowoomba Chronicle is 22,808 Monday to Friday and 30,270 on Saturday.[2]

The Toowoomba Chronicle website is part of News Corp Australia's News Regional Media network.[3]

History

The Darling Downs Gazette, founded at Drayton by Arthur Sidney Lyon, began publication in a wooden shanty on 10 June 1858. It moved to the burgeoning town of Toowoomba and merged with The Chronicle in 1922. The Chronicle, founded by Darius Hunt, began as a fourpenny weekly on 4 July 1861 in a coachbuilder's shop in James Street. On 4 February 1876, William Henry Groom became sole proprietor, beginning nearly half a century of family control of a newspaper that he transformed into a powerful and persuasive political weapon.

Archibald Meston was one of the editors.[4]

In 1922 the Dunn family acquired the Gazette and the two newspapers were amalgamated as the Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette. The combined newspaper was published first on 2 October 1922. On 20 October 1969 The Chronicle format was changed from broadsheet to tabloid. The Chronicle and the Downs Star merged on 1 October 1970 under a new company Toowoomba Newspapers Pty Ltd. The newspaper was relaunched as Toowoomba's Mail in September 2003.

In 1988, Australian Provincial Newspapers Ltd (APN) acquired a 50% share in Toowoomba Newspapers.[5]

Digitisation

The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia.[6][7]

See also

References
  1. Burrowes, Tim (29 December 2016) News Corp completes takeover of APN's regional newspapers, Mumbrella. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  2. Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). Average Net Paid Sales for October–December 2008 (metro and larger regional titles)/January–June 2008 (other regional titles).
  3. Samios, Zoe (14 March 2018) News Corp's regional Queensland publications move to premium digital subscription model, Mumbrella. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  4. "MR. A. MESTON". The Brisbane Courier. National Library of Australia. 12 March 1924. p. 6. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  5. The Toowoomba Chronicle. Accessed 13 March 2009.
  6. "Newspaper and magazine titles". Trove. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  7. "Newspaper Digitisation Program". Trove. Retrieved 2 December 2015.


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