The Melbourne Observer is Victoria’s weekly independent newspaper. The Melbourne Observer is available inside the Local Paper, which is published in localised editions across 40 local government areas. You can also read the newspaper, free, at the Melbourne Observer website.
The Local Paper is a free, community newspaper available in localised editions, across 40 Victorian local government areas, available free through hundreds of outlets. You can also read the newspaper, free, at The Local Paper website.
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Local Media Pty Ltd Editorial Guidelines and Code of Conduct Local Media Pty Ltd is an independent Australian media company, delivering local news on a number of platforms including print, internet and social media. Our editorial coverage is underscored by the ongoing commitment for accuracy, fairness and accountability. Our news columns include fact-based reporting, with
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
We are on duty, 7 days a week Contact us on Free Call 1800 231 311. If we are out on an assignment, please leave a message on our voice mail, and we will return your call promptly. Head Office (same address for past 28 years): 30 Glen Gully Road, Eltham, Vic 3095 Phone: 1800
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Heritage newspaper names have been adopted for many of the local editions of The Local Paper. The masthead titles pay homage to the traditions of long, established newspapers that have served local communities over the past 150 years. The newspapers are today published under The Local Paper brand by Local Media Pty Ltd. The Local Paper commenced weekly editions on
Local Media Pty Ltd produces the Mitchell Shire Edition of The Local Paper. Our company’s progenitors established editions of The Chronicle in Seymour, Kilmore and Broadford in the late 1980s-early 1990s against the established Free Press newspaper. But it gave us no joy to see the Smith family have to relinquish ownership of that newspaper in 2006, and to see the Kilmore
Saturday, September 14, 2002
Ash Long has been the Proprietor of Local Media Pty Ltd since 2002. His links with the company’s Melbourne Observer newspaper go back to 1969, more than 50 years ago. As a 12-year-old newsboy, Ash Long started in the first weeks of the Sunday Observer newspaper, delivering newspapers around the Housing Commission areas of Reservoir and East Preston. It
Victorian publisher Peter Isaacson purchased the Sunday Observer newspaper in 1977. At the start of the newspaper’s life in September 1969, Isaacson (along with Progress Press and Waverley Offset Printers) had been a contract printer of the Observer under the proprietorships of Gordon Barton and Maxwell Newton, until each of them took possession of their own presses.
Wednesday, January 1, 1975
After his publishing empire had collapsed in the mid-1970s, Observer publisher Maxwell Newton moved to America and restored his career. Maxwell Newton was described by Jim Grant, is his Grant’s Interest Rate Observer (Oct. 22, 1984): “By 1977, his net worth was $3 million or so at the top. He was re-building his fortunes in pornographic books
Sunday, September 16, 1973
Just 2½ years on from Maxwell Newton’s launch of the Melbourne Observer newspaper on March 20, 1971, his major opponents – The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd and David Syme & Co. Ltd – joined together to start the Sunday Press newspaper (cover price 15 cents). Its final edition was published on August 13, 1989. An early editor was
The rapid growth of the Melbourne Observer newspaper was reported upon by Norman Thompson of The Review on July 22, 1972: The enigmatic Max Newton has set Melbourne newspaper circles abuzz with plans to upgrade his Sunday paper, the Melbourne Observer. Newton has signed up one of Australia’s most highly-paid journalists, Walkley winner John Sorell of the Melbourne Herald,
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