The Evening News (Sydney)

The Evening News, 6 November 1869

The Evening News was the first evening newspaper published in Sydney, Australia.[1] It was published from 29 July 1867 to 21 March 1931.[2] The Sunday edition was published as the Sunday News.

History

The Evening News was founded in 1867 by Samuel Bennett[3] and was regarded as a "less serious read" than other Sydney newspapers.[4] In 1875 labour difficulties forced Bennett to merge The Evening News with another of his papers, The Empire.[5] The Evening News continued to be published until 1931 at which point it was closed by Associated Newspapers, who had acquired most Sydney newspaper titles by that time.[6] A Sunday morning edition was published as Sunday News from 1919-1930.[7]

Digitisation

The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP) project of the National Library of Australia.[8][9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Bryce, Merilyn. "Bennett, Samuel (1815–1878)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  2. ↑ "The Evening News". State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ↑ "The Evening News". State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  4. ↑ Isaacs, Victor (2003). Two hundred years of Sydney newspapers : a short history (PDF). North Richmond: Rural Press. p. 10.
  5. ↑ Bryce, Merilyn. "Bennett, Samuel (1815–1878)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  6. ↑ Isaacs, Victor (2003). Two hundred years of Sydney newspapers: a short history (PDF). North Richmond: Rural Press. p. 15.
  7. ↑ Isaacs, Victor (2003). Two hundred years of Sydney newspapers: a short history (PDF). North Richmond: Rural Press. p. 16.
  8. ↑ "Newspaper and magazine titles". Trove Digitised newspapers and more. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  9. ↑ "Newspaper Digitisation Program". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2013.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, February 13, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.